以下是一些著名的英文哲学语录,附有作者和出处:
1. "I think, therefore I am." - René Descartes, "Discourse on the Method" (1637).
2. "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates (attributed), as recorded by Plato in "Apology" (399 BC).
3. "To be is to be perceived." - George Berkeley, "Principles of Human Knowledge" (1710).
4. "God is dead." - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (1883).
5. "The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates, as recorded by Plato in "Apology" (399 BC).
6. "Cogito, ergo sum." (Latin for "I think, therefore I am.") - René Descartes, "Discourse on the Method" (1637).
7. "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." - Allen Saunders (often misattributed to John Lennon).
8. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (sometimes misattributed to Thomas Jefferson).
9. "There is no wealth but life." - John Ruskin, "Unto This Last" (1860).
10. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi.
1
When I say I know you,I mean I knew you yesterday. I do not know you actually now.
当我说认识你的时,我是说我认识昨天的你。我不认识现在的你。
--Kaishnamurti 克里什纳默尔迪
2
Wonders are many,and nothing is more wonderful then man.
天下奇迹无数,却无一比人更奇妙。
--Sophocles
3
The proper function of man is to live,but not to exist.
人应该生活,而非单纯生存。
--Jack London
4
If you smile when one is around,you really mean it.
如果你独自一人笑了,那是真心的笑。
--Andy Rooney
5
There is a time to speak and a time to be silent.
该说话时说话,该沉默时沉默。
--Caxton卡克斯顿
6
The worst bankrupt is the person who lost his enthusiasm.
最惨的破产就是丧失自己的热情。
-- H.W.Arnold H.W。阿诺德
7
It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime,but at night it is another thing.
在白天对什么都不动感情是极为容易的,但在夜晚就是另外一回事。
--Hemingway 海明威
8
To err is human,to forgive,divine.
人皆犯错,你能原谅别人,你就是圣人。
--Pope 蒲柏
9
There is an unconscious heeling process within the mind which mends up in spite of our desperate determination never to forget.
心中的伤痛总是不知不觉渐渐愈合,虽然我们也曾痛苦地发誓说永不忘记。
--Colleen McCullough 科林·麦卡洛
10
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
在这个世界上只有两种悲剧:一种是得不到自己想要的东西,另一种是得到了。
--Oscar Wildle 奥斯卡·王尔德
11
Naked came I into this world,and naked must I go out.
我赤裸裸地来到这个世界,也要赤裸裸地离去。
--Cervantes 塞万提斯
12
Passion,though a bad regulator,is a powerful spring.
激情虽难以驾驭,却是种强大的动力。
--Emerson 爱默生
13
Carve your name on hearts and not on marbles.
把你的名字刻在人们的心里,而不是大理石上。
--Joseph Addison 约瑟夫·艾迪生
14
I can resist everything except temptation.
除了诱惑我什么都能抵抗。
--Oscar wilde 奥斯卡·王尔德
15
What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
一个人的首要职责是什么?很简单:做自己。
--Henrik Ibsen 易卜生
16
The love of country is the first virtue in a civilized man.
爱国是文明人类第一美德。
--Napoleon 拿破仑
17
We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what we do not love.
我们只能爱我们理解的东西,却永远也不能彻底理解我们不爱的东西。
--A.L.Huxley A.L.赫胥黎
18
A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;a beautiful behavior than a beautiful form.
美丽的形体胜于美丽的脸蛋,美丽的举止胜于美丽的形体。
--Emerson 爱默生
19
Man is,Properly speaking,based upon hope;he has no other posseession but hope.
恰当地说,人是因希望活着的,除了希望,一无所有。
--Thomas Caarlyle 托马斯·卡莱尔
20
Man must look just as ridiculous to the crab when it sees him walk forward.
人类在螃蟹看来一定也是很好笑的,因为人类居然是向前走的。
--G.c.Lichtenberg G.C.利希滕贝格
21
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world;but each of them,when he is asleep,is in a world of his own.
所有人在醒着的时候都是置身于同一个世界,但在睡着后,却都置身在自己的世界。
--Plutarch 普卢塔克
22
Everyone is a moon,and has a dark side which he never shows in anybody.
每个人都是月球,有其从不展示给人看的黑暗面。
--Mark Twain 马克·吐温
23
Do not rejoice over anyone's death;remember that we all must die.
不要因某一个人死去而欢呼;记住我们都将死去。
--Apocrypha 阿波克拉弗
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As long as any man exists,there is some need of him;let him fight for his own.
只要人生存,就有一些需要,让他为自己去奋斗吧。
--Cicero 西塞罗
25
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
重复并不能把谎言变成真理。
--Franklin D.Roosevelt 富兰克林·D·罗斯福
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The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.
人的本能是追逐从他身边飞走的东西,却逃避追逐他的东西。
--Voltaire 伏尔泰