Bertrand Russell's Best: Silhouettes in Satire (1958), "On Religion".<!--originally taken from What is an Agnostic? (1953).-->
1950s
Контексте: I observe that a very large portion of the human race does not believe in God and suffers no visible punishment in consequence. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt his existence.
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“Become who you are!”
Стань тем, кто ты есть!
Источник: Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
Источник: Memoirs
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
Тогда иди, ведь есть и другие миры, кроме этого.
Источник: The Gunslinger
“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
Чистая совесть - верный признак плохой памяти.
“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.”
C'est un merveilleux assaisonnement aux plaisirs qu'on goûte que la présence des gens qu'on aime.
Act V, sc. iv
Le Misanthrope (1666)
“I am a part of everything that I have read.”
Я часть всего, что я прочитал.
“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
Я знаю, что считать, что что-то под моей кроватью, может схватить меня за лодыжку - это иллюзия, однако и я также знаю, что если я буду держать ногу под одеялом, ничто не сможет схватить меня за лодыжку.
Источник: Night Shift
Источник: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
Мудрости характерно — не совершать отчаянных поступков.
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”
As quoted in My Favorite Quotations (1990) by Norman Vincent Peale
Table-Talk (1857)
Источник: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
Я был рад, что могу дать ответ незамедлительно. Так я и сделал. Я сказал, что не знаю.
“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?”
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (1983), p. 228
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
Конечно, проблема с не предвзятым мышлением заключается в том, что люди будут настаивать на том, чтобы прийти и добавить что-то в него.
The Nome Trilogy (1989 - 1990)
Вариант: The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.
Источник: Diggers (1990)
“No doubt the reason is that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Несомненно, причина в том, что характер не может развиваться легко и тихо. Только благодаря опыту и страданиям можно укрепить душу, очистить зрение, вдохновиться амбициями и добиться успеха.
Helen Adams Keller (p. 60. Helen Keller's Journal: 1936-1937, Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1938)
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
Когда мы вспоминаем, что все мы безумны, тайны исчезают, и жизнь объясняется.
Вариант: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We pretend to be strong because we are weak.”
Мы притворяемся сильными, потому что мы слабы.
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”
Многие люди боятся сказать, чего они хотят. И именно поэтому этого не получают
From Sex book
Вариант: A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
Плач — утешение для простых женщин, а красивые женщины идут за покупками.
“Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?”
Источник: Going Postal
As quoted in Sunbeams : A Book of Quotations (1990) by Sy Safransky, p. 42
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
Лучшая возможность узнать можешь ли ты доверять человеку — довериться ему.
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.”
Меня не беспокоит, является ли Бог на нашей стороне; моя самая большая забота - быть на стороне Бога, потому что Бог всегда прав.
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New Years Day, equivalent to 15 February 1676 by Gregorian reckonings.] A facsimile of the original is online at The digital Library https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/9792. The quotation is 7-8 lines up from the bottom of the first page. The phrase is most famous as an expression of Newton's but he was using a metaphor which in its earliest known form was attributed to Bernard of Chartres by John of Salisbury: Bernard of Chartres used to say that we [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter. And this is not at all because of the acuteness of our sight or the stature of our body, but because we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants. Modernized variants: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Вариант: If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
Источник: The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
Мы живем в эпоху, когда ненужные вещи являются нашей единственной необходимостью.
“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
Источник всех наших знаний - наша способность к восприятию.
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
Глупость у женщины неженская.
Источник: Human, All Too Human
“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
Хорошие книги не раскрывают все свои секреты сразу.
“Tell me, when you are alone with him [ Max Beerbohm ] Sphinx, does he take off his face and reveal his mask?”
Скажи мне, когда ты один с ним [Макс Бирбом] Сфинкс, он снимает лицо и открывает маску?
In a letter to Ada Leverson [Sphinx] recorded in her book Letters To The Sphinx From Oscar Wilde and Reminiscences of the Author (1930)
“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.”
Реальность может быть побеждена с достаточным воображением.
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
Я всегда предпочитаю верить в лучшее из всех; это спасает от стольки проблем!
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Вы никогда не можете быть переутомлены или переутомлены.
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Wuthering Heights (1847)
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.”
Если вам нравилось быть подростком, с вами что-то не так.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”
Для счастливой жизни нужно совсем немного. Все дело в самом человеке, в его образе мышления.
Источник: Meditations
“Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.”
Будь всегда хозяином положения, или мир станет тебе тюрьмой.
Источник: The Poems of John Donne; Miscellaneous Poems (Songs and Sonnets) Elegies. Epithalamions, or Marriage Songs. Satires. Epigrams. the Progress of
“Anything that feels good couldn't possibly be bad.”
Всё, что ощущается хорошим, не может быть возможно плохим
“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”
Сегодня я добился успеха, потому что у меня был друг, который верил в меня, и у меня не хватило духа подвести его.
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
“The enemy isn't men, or women, it's bloody stupid people and no one has the right to be stupid.”
Источник: Monstrous Regiment
“This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.”
Usenet
“Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Самый печальный аспект сегодняшней жизни заключается в том, что наука получает знания гораздо быстрее, чем общество приобретает мудрость.
Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources
“Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”
Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus
Quo minime credas gurgite, piscis erit.
Book III, line 425
Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love)
Источник: Heroides
Контексте: Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
“Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
Жизнь, в которой сделали много ошибок не только более благородна, но и более полезна, чем жизнь, в которой не сделали ничего.
Preface
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
Вариант: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Контексте: Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”
Источник: Frost Burned
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
Источник: Twilight of the Idols
“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Вы не можете зависеть от своих глаз, когда ваше воображение не в фокусе.
Ch. 43 http://www.literature.org/authors/twain-mark/connecticut/chapter-43.html
Источник: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)
“When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.”
Когда я спрашиваю, сколько лет вашему малышу, мне не нужно слышать «27 месяцев». «Ему два» подойдет просто отлично. Он не сыр. И мне изначально было это безразлично.
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
Не спрашивайте, что вы можете сделать для своей страны. Спросите, что на обед.
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
Сначала получите ваши факты, а затем вы можете искажать их сколько угодно.
As quoted in "An Interview with Mark Twain" http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/seatosea/chapter37.html, From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel (1899) by Rudyard Kipling, Ch. 37, p. 180
Commonly paraphrased as: "First get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
Идея, которая не опасна, вообще не заслуживает того, чтобы ее называли идеей.
The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)
“There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be…”
Нет такого места, где вы находитесь, но не должны были находиться.
Song All You Need Is Love
Источник: The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism
“The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Источник: Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 69
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”
Человек счастлив, если в промежутке между пробуждением и отходом ко сну он занимается тем, чем хочет.
Вариант: A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”
Я думаю, что мы все психически больны. Те, кто вне психиатрической больницы, только скрывают это чуть-чуть лучше, а может быть не намного лучше в конце концов.
“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
Юмор почти всегда злится с его макияжем.
Источник: Bag of Bones
“We all shine on… like the moon and the stars and the sun… we all shine on… come on and on and on…”
Мы все сияем… как луна, звезды и солнце… мы все сияем… давай, давай, давай…
Вариант: Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.
Источник: Song Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
Книги нужны, чтобы напомнить человеку, что его оригинальные мысли не так уж новы.
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
16
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Вариант: A cage went in search of a bird.
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
Источник: Man and Crisis (1962), p. 94.
“A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.”
Источник: Guards! Guards!
“Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.”
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
“Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”
Покажите мне героя, и я напишу трагедию.
Notebook E (1945) edited by Edmund Wilson
Quoted, Notebooks
“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”
Мудрый человек создаст больше возможностей, чем он найдет.
Of Ceremonies and Respect
Essays (1625)
Вариант: Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Источник: The Essays
“Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
Book VIII, Chapter 4.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.”
Я не обязан радовать тебя своими ответами.
Источник: The Merchant of Venice
“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Я не присутствовал на похоронах, но я прислал проникновенное письмо, в котором признал этот факт.
Вариант: I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”
Если это неправильно — не делай этого. Если это неправда — не говори этого.
XII, 17
Источник: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book XII
Контексте: If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it. For let thy efforts be
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Только пустые люди знают себя.
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.”
Источник: Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
“But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
Но кто молится за сатану? Кто за восемнадцать веков обладал общей человечностью молиться за единственного грешника, который больше всего в этом нуждался?
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
Если вы хотите стать писателем, вы должны делать две вещи выше всех остальных: много читать и много писать.
“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.”
Я думаю, что, возможно, мы хотим более осознанной жизни.
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Каждый портрет, который написан с чувством, является портретом художника, а не няни.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray