“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
Spoločnosť zločincom často odpustí; nikdy neodpustí rojkom.
Anglickej citáty
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Preskúmajte známe a užitočné anglickej citáty, frázy a výroky. Citáty v angličtine s prekladom.
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
Neexistujú žiadne fakty, iba interpretácie.
Notebooks (Summer 1886 – Fall 1887)
Variant translation: Against that positivism which stops before phenomena, saying "there are only facts," I should say: no, it is precisely facts that do not exist, only interpretations…
As translated in The Portable Nietzsche (1954) by Walter Kaufmann, p. 458
“Liberals can understand everything but people
who don't understand them.”
Liberáli chápu všetkému, okrem ľudí,
ktorí im nerozumejú.
“Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.”
Neznehodnocujte svoje deti tým, že im uľahčíte život.
Time Enough for Love (1973)
“The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.”
Problém nie je v tom, že by ste pre kamaráta zomreli, ale v tom, že taký kamarát sa ťažko hľadá.
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
Život máme vždy žiť a zvedavosť musíme udržiavať nažive. Človek sa nikdy nesmie z akéhokoľvek dôvodu otočiť životu chrbtom.
Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Nedokážem veriť v Boha, ktorý chce byť stále uznávaný.
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”
Krátky príbeh je úplne iná vec - je to ako rýchly bozk v tme od cudzinca.
Zdroj: Skeleton Crew
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
Ľudia, ktorí vedia málo, sú zvyčajne skvelí hovorcovia, zatiaľ čo ľudia, ktorí toho vedia veľa, hovoria len málo.
“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
Zašiel som do kníhkupectva a spýtal som sa predavačky: Kde je samoobslužná sekcia? Povedala, že ak mi to prezradí, stratí to zmysel.
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Ak sa nedá s potešením knihu čítať znovu a znovu, nie je užitočné ju čítať vôbec.
“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”
Je dobré vedieť, že ak budem niekedy potrebovať pozornosť, stačí zomrieť.
“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
Ó, nauč ma, ako mám zabudnúť myslieť.
Zdroj: Romeo and Juliet
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
Nepáči sa mi ten muž. Musím ho lepšie spoznať.
As quoted in "Wisdom of a forefather" https://web.archive.org/web/20100716212616/http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=546 (11 February 2009), Colorado State University.
Posthumous attributions
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
Dospieť a stať sa tým, kým skutočne ste, vyžaduje odvahu.
“Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel?”
Kto by nechcel byť radšej stúpajúcou opicou ako padajúcim anjelom?
A similar remark was reportedly made by Pratchett in The Herald (4 October 2004): I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Kontext: Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.
“Animals are my friends… and I don't eat my friends.”
Zvieratá sú moji priatelia a ja svojich priateľov nejem.
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
Veď prečo žijeme, ak nie preto, aby sme sa vysmievali svojim blížnym a na oplátku sa opäť sami na ich účet zasmiali?
Zdroj: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
Ak vás to desí, možno by bolo dobré tomu dať šancu.
“You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.”
Máte veľký dar mlčať, Watson. To vás robí neoceniteľným spoločníkom.
Zdroj: The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Trpezlivosť a čas urobia viac ako hnev a sila.
Patience et longueur de temps
Font plus que force ni que rage.
Book II (1668), fable 11.
Fables (1668–1679)
“It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.”
Nie je to znalosť pravdy, ale úspech, ktorý prichádza s jej hľadaním, čo hľadajúceho obohacuje a prináša mu šťastie.
Where Is Science Going? (1932)
Zdroj: Where is Science Going?
“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Snívajúci je človek, ktorý nachádza cestu iba pri mesačnom svite a jeho trest je, že vidí svitanie skôr ako zvyšok sveta.
Varianta: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Zdroj: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.”
Utrpenie sa nezvyšuje množstvom. Jeden človek môže uniesť všetko utrpenie, ktoré na svete existuje.
Zdroj: The Quiet American
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
To, že je v menšine a že je možno jediný, z neho ešte neurobí šialenca. Je pravda a je nepravda, a keď sa človek drží pravdy, aj keď proti celému svetu, nie je šialený.
Zdroj: 1984
“thus with a kiss I die”
a tak s bozkom zomieram...
Zdroj: Romeo and Juliet
“The only obligation we have in any lifetime is to be true to ourselves.”
Jedinou našou povinnosťou počas života je byť verný sám sebe.
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Varianta: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Zdroj: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Kontext: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Kontext: Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
“If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.”
Ak sa ľudia dokážu mať aspoň trochu radi, môžu byť šťastní.
Zdroj: Germinal
“The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.”
Človek s veľkými úmyslami sa musí starať viac o pravdu ako o to, čo si ľudia myslia.
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”
Život ti nie vždy rozdá dobré karty; ide o to zahrať to dobre aj so zlými.
As quoted in Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior (1991) by Dan Millman, p. 78
Life’s not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.
As quoted in "They Came to Write in Hawai‘i" by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha (March/April 2007)
“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”
Tvoj otec, Jo. Nikdy nestráca trpezlivosť, nikdy nepochybuje a nesťažuje sa, ale vždy dúfa, pracuje a čaká tak radostne, že sa človek pred ním hanbí robiť niečo iné.
Zdroj: Little Women
“Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.”
Kritika je v najlepšom prípade pretvárajúca, nie ducha ubíjajúca.
Zdroj: Break, Blow, Burn
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
Vždy buďte sami sebou, vyjadrite sa, verte si, nehľadajte úspešnú osobnosť, ktorú by ste odkopírovali.
Bruce Lee radio interview with Ted Thomas
Bruce Lee
Kontext: When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Kontext: When I look around I always learn something, and that is to be yourself always, express yourself, and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate him. Now that seems to be the prevalent thing happening in Hong Kong, like they always copy mannerism, but they never start from the root of his being and that is, how can I be me?
“Light tomorrow with today.”
Rozžiar zajtrajšok s dneškom.
“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”
Skutočne dôležité momenty v živote si človek uvedomí, až keď je neskoro.
“My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.”
Moje slová vyletia nahor, moje myšlienky zostávajú dole: Slová bez myšlienok nikdy sa nikdy nedostanú do neba.
Zdroj: Hamlet
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
Život každého človeka končí rovnako. Iba detaily o tom, ako žil a ako zomrel, odlišujú jedného človeka od druhého.
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
V ľavom vrecku nosím smrť. Niekedy si ju vytiahnem a porozprávam sa s ňou: „Ahoj zlato, ako sa máš? Kedy sa za mnou zastavíš? Budem pripravený."
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.”
Láska sa skladá z tohto: dve samoty, ktoré sa stretávajú, chránia a zdravia sa navzájom.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Som tak múdry, že niekedy nerozumiem ani jednému zo slov, ktoré vravím.
Zdroj: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“The heart was made to be broken.”
Srdce bolo vytvorené preto, aby mohlo byť zlomené.
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”
V živote sú chvíle, kedy ľudia musia vedieť, že nemajú nechať niečo odísť z ich života. Balóny sú práve určené na to, aby to naučili malé deti.
“There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.”
Koluje fáma, že som našiel Boha. Myslím si, že je to nepravdepodobné, pretože mám problém nájsť aj svoje kľúče a pritom mám empirické dôkazy, že existujú.
"I create gods all the time - now I think one might exist" (2008)
Kontext: There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
But it is true that in an interview I gave recently I did describe a sudden, distinct feeling I had one hectic day that everything I was doing was right and things were happening as they should.
It seemed like the memory of a voice and it came wrapped in its own brief little bubble of tranquillity. I'm not used to this.
As a fantasy writer I create fresh gods and philosophies almost with every new book … But since contracting Alzheimer's disease I have spent my long winter walks trying to work out what it is that I really, if anything, believe.
“The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body”
Duša je dôsledkom a nástrojom politickej anatómie; duša je väzením tela.
Discipline and Punish (1977)
Kontext: The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence... the soul is the effect and instrument of political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
Kontext: But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention, has been substituted for the soul, the illusion of theologians. The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence, which is itself a factor in the mastery that power exercises over the body. The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.
“What's past is prologue.”
Čo je minulosť, to je prológ.
Zdroj: The Tempest
“What does not kill him, makes him stronger.”
Čo ťa nezabije, to ťa posilní.
… was ihn nicht umbringt, macht ihn stärker
"Why I Am So Wise", 2
Cf. Twilight of the Idols (1888), "Maxims and Arrows", aphorism 8: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ecce Homo (1888)
“A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”
Dieťa môže naučiť dospelého tri veci: byť šťastným bez dôvodu, byť neustále zaneprázdnený niečím a mať schopnosť zo všetkej svojej sily požadovať to, po čom túži.
“The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.”
Skutočným milencom je človek, ktorý vás nadchne bozkom na čelo alebo úsmevom, alebo len zízaním do vesmíru.
“Our knowledge of life is limited to death”
Naše poznanie života je obmedzené smrťou.
Zdroj: All Quiet on the Western Front
“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
Kto si myslí, že môže, ten môže, a kto si myslí, že nemôže, ten nemôže. To je neúprosný, nespochybniteľný zákon.
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
Verím, že to, čím sa staneme, závisí od toho, čo nás naši otcovia naučia vo zvláštnych chvíľach, keď sa nás nesnažia nič naučiť. Formujú nás malé útržky múdrosti.
Zdroj: Foucault's Pendulum
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”
Robte to, čo cítite vo svojom srdci, že je správne - pretože aj tak vás skritizujú. Budete "prekliati, keď to spravíte, a prekliati, aj keď to nespravíte."
As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie; though Roosevelt has sometimes been credited with the originating the expression, "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" is set in quote marks, indicating she herself was quoting a common expression in saying this. Actually, this saying was coined back even earlier, 1836, by evangelist Lorenzo Dow in his sermons about ministers saying the Bible contradicts itself, telling his listeners, "… those who preach it up, to make the Bible clash and contradict itself, by preaching somewhat like this: 'You can and you can't-You shall and you shan't-You will and you won't-And you will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't.' "
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Už nestrácajte čas hádkami o tom, aký by mal byť dobrý človek. Buďte jedným.
Μηκέθ᾽ ὅλως περὶ τοῦ οἷόν τινα εἶναι τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἄνδρα διαλέγεσθαι, ἀλλὰ εἶναι τοιοῦτον.
X, 16
Varianta: Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
Zdroj: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book X
“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
Na začiatku nebolo nič, a to vybuchlo.
Zdroj: Lords and Ladies
“Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.”
Ľudská myseľ skrýva viac tajomstiev ako ktorákoľvek napísaná kniha a je premenlivejšia ako tvary mrakov na nebi.
Zdroj: The Abbot's Ghost: A Christmas Story
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
Nikdy nemilujte niekoho, kto sa k vám chová, akoby ste boli obyčajní.
“Joy is the best makeup.”
Radosť je najlepší make-up.
Zdroj: Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
“We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
Musíme byť zmenou, ktorú chceme vidieť vo svete.
“If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding. And we all fear change. So as I say, it is not an easy thing to permit oneself to understand an individual”
Ak si dovolím skutočne porozumieť inému človeku, možno sa vďaka tomuto porozumeniu zmením. A všetci sa bojíme zmeny. Takže ako hovorím, nie je ľahké dovoliť si porozumieť jednotlivcovi.
Zdroj: On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
“A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?”
Človek, ktorý chce poznať pravdu, sa stane vedcom; človek, ktorý chce dať voľný priebeh svojej subjektivite, sa môže stať spisovateľom; ale čo má robiť človek, ktorý chce niečo medzi tým?
Zdroj: The Man Without Qualities
“If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.”
Ak má žena pocit, že potrebuje niečo, čo ju presahuje, aby legitimizovala a potvrdila svoju existenciu, už sa vzdáva svojej schopnosti sebadefinovania, svojho postavenia.
Zdroj: Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?”
Ráčite ten jazyk vyplazovať na nás?
Zdroj: Romeo and Juliet
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Zmeňte svoj pohľad na veci a veci, na ktoré sa pozeráte, sa zmenia.
“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
Vzdelanie: cesta od arogantnej nevedomosti k mizernej neistote.
“Presume not that I am the thing I was.”
Nepredpokladajte, že som tým, čím som býval.
Zdroj: Henry IV, Part 2
“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am… only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
Mnohí ma nazvú dobrodruhom a že som … taký odlišný: taký, kto riskuje svoj život, aby dokázal svoju pravdu.
Last Letter to his Parents (1965)
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Dajte si pozor na falošné znalosti; sú nebezpečnejšie ako nevedomosť.
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
Nedôverujem ľuďom, ktorí presne vedia, čo od nich Boh chce, pretože som si všimol, že sa to vždy prekrýva s ich vlastnými túžbami.
“When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.”
Keď zákon odzbrojí dobrých ľudí, zlí ľudia sa radujú.
“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”
Počúvajte to, čo viete, namiesto toho, čoho sa bojíte.
“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.”
Život je choroba a smrť začína narodením. Každé vydýchnutie a každý tep srdca je zároveň tak trochu umieraním - malým krôčikom ku koncu.
Zdroj: Three Comrades
“Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.”
Byť verný sám sebe niekedy znamená zmeniť názor. Vaše ja sa zmení a vy ho nasledujete.
Zdroj: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
Nikto pre vás nemôže postaviť most, po ktorom musíte prejsť prúd života, nikto iný okrem vás sám.
Niemand kann dir die Brücke bauen, auf der gerade du über den Fluß des Lebens schreiten mußt, niemand außer dir allein.
“Schopenhauer as educator,” § 3.1, R. Hollingdale, trans. (1983), p. 129
Untimely Meditations (1876)
“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”
Múdrosť, šťastie a odvaha nečakajú niekde v nedohľadne na konci priamky, ale sú súčasťou nepretržitého cyklu, ktorý sa začína práve tu. Nie sú len koncom, ale aj začiatkom.
Zdroj: The Tao of Pooh
“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
Život je taký láskavý, ako mu to dovolíš.
Zdroj: Hot Water Music
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog.”
V boji to nie je veľkosť psa, na čom záleží, ale veľkosť boja v psovi samotnom.
Anonymous American proverb; since 1998 this has often been attributed to Mark Twain on the internet, but no contemporary evidence of him ever using it has been located.
Variants:
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that matters.
"Stub Ends of Thoughts" by Arthur G. Lewis, a collection of sayings, in Book of the Royal Blue Vol. 14, No. 7 (April 1911), cited as the earliest known occurrence in The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs, edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro, p. 232
It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.
Anonymous quote in the evening edition of the East Oregonian (20 April 1911)
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight — it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, declaring his particular variant on the proverbial assertion in Remarks at Republican National Committee Breakfast (31 January 1958) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11229
Misattributed
“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success”
Vzdialenosť medzi šialenstvom a genialitou sa meria len podľa úspechu.
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
Tí, ktorí popierajú slobodu iným, si ju sami nezaslúžia.
Varianta: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God cannot retain it.
Zdroj: Complete Works - Volume XII
“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”
Radšej by som bol vynikajúcim meteorom, každý môj atóm v nádhernej žiare, ako ospalá a trvalá planéta.
The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, p. 1.
Also included in Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, ed. Irving Shepard, Introduction, p. vii (1956)
Kontext: I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
Ale keď myslenie kazí reč, aj reč môže kaziť myslenie.
"Politics and the English Language" (1946)
Zdroj: 1984
Kontext: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
Kontext: All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. I should expect to find — this is a guess which I have not sufficient knowledge to verify — that the German, Russian and Italian languages have all deteriorated in the last ten or fifteen years, as a result of dictatorship.
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
Mestá, rovnako ako sny, sa skladajú z túžob a obáv, aj keď nitka ich deja je tajná, ich pravidlá sú absurdné, ich perspektívy klamlivé a za všetkým sa skrýva niečo iné.
Page 44.
Zdroj: Invisible Cities (1972)
Kontext: With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Dobrí priatelia, dobré knihy a ospalé svedomie: toto je ideálny život.
“I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
Nikdy som v mojom živote nezávidel človeku, ktorý viedol ľahký život; Ale závidel som mnohým ľuďom, ktorí viedli ťažké životy a viedli ich dobre.
Address in Des Moines, Iowa (4 November 1910)
1910s
“There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.”
Existuje zvláštna schopnosť meniť fakty silou predstavivosti.
Zdroj: The Common Reader
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
Nečítajte tak, ako to robia deti, za účelom zábavy, alebo ako ambiciózni, za účelom získania informácií. Nie, čítajte, aby ste žili.
Correspondence, Letters to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie
Varianta: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.
Kontext: Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live. (June 1857)
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.”
Už od útleho veku som odmietal konzumáciu mäsa a príde čas, keď sa ľudia ako ja budú pozerať na vraždenie zvierat tak, ako sa teraz pozerajú na vraždenie ľudí.
Quoted allegedly "From da Vinci`s Notes" in Jon Wynne-Tyson: The Extended Circle. A Dictionary of Humane Thought. Centaur Press 1985, p. 65 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=1mMbAQAAIAAJ&q=murder.
Actually the quote is not authentic but made up from a novel by Dmitri Merejkowski (w:Dmitry Merezhkovsky) entitled "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci" (La Résurrecton de Dieux 1901), translated from Russian into English by Herbert Trench. G.P. Putnam's Sons New York and London, The Knickerbocker Press. There, in Book (i.e. chapter) VI, entitled The Diary of Giovanni Boltraffio, one finds the following:
The master [Leonardo da Vinci] permits harm to no living creatures, not even to plants. Zoroastro http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_Masini tells me that from an early age he has abjured meat, and says that the time shall come when all men such as he will be content with a vegetable diet, and will think on the murder of animals as now they think on the murder of men ( p. 226 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=g_pa0OaYX64C&pg=PA226).
However, despite the quote's false attribution, da Vinci was in fact a vegetarian.
Misattributed
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.”
Keď je každý deň rovnaký, je to preto, že ľudia nedokážu rozpoznať dobré veci, ktoré sa v ich živote dejú každý deň, keď vyjde slnko.
Varianta: When each day is the same as the nest it's because people fail to reconize the good things that happen in thier lives everyday the sunrises
Zdroj: The Alchemist
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
Zabalil sa do citátov – ako sa žobrák zahaľuje do purpuru cisárov.
The Finest Story in the World http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ManyInventions/fineststory.html (1893).
Other works
Zdroj: Many Inventions
Kontext: When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.
“I am here to live out loud.”
Som tu, aby som žil nahlas.
“In the dark, all cats are black.”
V tme sú všetky mačky čierne.
“Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.”
Hudba je univerzálnym jazykom ľudstva - poézia jeho univerzálna zábava a radosť.
Outre-Mer.
“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
Môžete strpieť bolesť zo zmeny alebo strpieť, že zostanete takí, akí ste.
“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”
Muž nikdy nie je taký veľký, ako keď padne na kolená, aby pomohol dieťaťu.
“Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.”
Len erotické. Nič zvrhlé. To je rozdiel medzi použitím pierka a použitím kurčaťa.
Zdroj: Eric
“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work…”
Genialita je 1% talent a 99% tvrdá práca.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
Všetky problémy ľudstva vyplývajú z neschopnosti človeka pokojne sedieť v miestnosti osamote.
Varianta: All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.
Zdroj: Pensées
“Anything you can settle with money is cheap.”
Zdroj: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
Zdravý rozum a šťastie naraz sú nemožnou kombináciou.
“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”
Vždy som bol toho názoru, že tvrdá práca je jednoducho útočiskom ľudí, ktorí nemajú čo robiť.
" The Remarkable Rocket http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/179/".
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
Varianta: Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.