Zdroj: Essential Ohsawa - From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics (1994), p. 77
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.”
Chudobným nie je muž, ktorý má niečoho nedostatok, ale muž ktorý, ktorý túži po niečom viac.
Zdroj: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
“The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them.”
Najťažšie sa žije s výčitkami, ktoré ste spôsobili niekomu inému. A ja si len ťažko dokážem predstaviť mieru bolesti, ktorú som ľuďom spôsobil.
“After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?”
Napokon, prečo by mali obyčajní ľudia chcieť uvažovať o konci, najmä keď vidíme, v akom stave sú tí, ktorí o ňom uvažujú?
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“Man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.”
Človek zomiera v zúfalstve, zatiaľ čo Duch zomiera v extáze.
Zdroj: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
“Don't do unto others what you don't want done unto you.”
Čo nechcete, aby sa dialo vám, nerobte ani iným.
Varianta: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
Zdroj: The Analects, Other chapters, Chapter XVː23
“Philosophy offers an antidote to melancholy. And many still believe in the depth of philosophy!”
Filozofia ponúka liek proti melanchólii. A mnohí stále veria v hĺbku filozofie!
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
“Man is fulfilled only when he ceases to be man.”
Človek sa cíti byť naplnený až vtedy, keď prestane byť človekom.
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.”
Bez ohľadu na to, ako rýchlo lož beží, pravda ju jedného dňa predbehne.
On lies and truth - "TB Joshua Rejects Courts Findings, Insists Building Collapse Was A Sabotage" http://citifmonline.com/2015/07/10/tb-joshua-rejects-courts-findings-insists-building-collapse-a-sabotage/ Citi FM, Ghana (July 10 2015)
“To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations as well as the security and well-being of Our subjects is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by Our Imperial Ancestors and which lies close to Our heart.”
Snažiť sa o spoločný blahobyt a šťastie všetkých národov, ako aj o bezpečnosť a blahobyt našich poddaných je slávnostný záväzok, ktorý nám odovzdali naši cisárski predkovia a ktorý nám leží na srdci.
Gyokuon-hōsō (1945)
“What are you waiting for in order to give up?”
Na čo ešte čakáte, keď sa chcete vzdať?
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.”
Ľudstvo sa skladá z dvoch druhov ľudí - tých, ktorí milujú a tvoria, a tých, ktorí nenávidia a ničia.
"Letter to a Cuban Farmer" (1893)
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Daj človeku rybu a nakŕmiš ho na jeden deň. Naučte ho loviť ryby a nasýtite ho na celý život.
This quotation has been misattributed to Laozi; its origin is actually unknown (see "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" on Wiktionary). This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius and Guan Zhong.
Misattributed
“There aren't six or seven wonders of the world
There is no more than one: it is love.”
Nie je päť alebo šesť divov sveta, ale jeden: láska.
Attributed
“Justice is to be found only in the imagination.”
Spravodlivosť možno nájsť len v predstavivosti.
“You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.”
To, či je človek chytrý, zistíte podľa jeho odpovedí. To, či je človek múdry, zistíte podľa jeho otázok.
Cited in: Michael J. Gelb (1996) Thinking for a change: discovering the power to create, communicate and lead. p. 96
“Investigate what is, and not what pleases.”
Skúmajte, čo je, a nie čo sa vám páči.
Untersuchen was ist, und nicht was behagt
Der Versuch als Vermittler von Objekt und Subjekt (The Attempt as Mediator of Object and Subject) (1792)
“If we spend all our time gazing at the wonders ahead without remembering where we're standing right now, we're going to trip and fall flat on our face, over and over agaain.”
Ak strávime všetok čas hľadením na zázraky pred nami bez toho, aby sme si uvedomili, kde stojíme, zakopneme a padneme na tvár, znova a znova.
Zdroj: Fiction, Zendegi (2010), Ch. 1
“Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”
Spoločnosť zaútočí rýchlo, keď je jednotlivec bezmocný.
Walden Two (1948), p. 95.
“I've been there, done it all. I'm very clear about my priorities as an entertainer. I want the audience to feel good when they watch me. That's what I'm paid for. Why should I sell anything else?”
Všade som bol, všetko som zažil. Ako zabávač mám v prioritách jasno. Chcem, aby sa diváci cítili dobre, keď ma sledujú. Za to som platený. Prečo by som mal predávať niečo iné?
From interview with Subhash K. Jha
“Man forgets. God forgives. Man forgets God's Truth. God forgives man's ignorance.”
Človek zabúda. Boh odpúšťa. Človek zabúda na Božiu pravdu. Boh odpúšťa človeku jeho nevedomosť.
Songs of the Soul (1971)
“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.”
Ak chcete zmeniť spôsob, akým ľudia reagujú na vás, zmeňte spôsob, akým reagujete vy na ľudí.
Changing My Mind, Among Others (1982)
“A fool is known by his Speech; and a wise man by Silence.”
Hlupák sa pozná podľa reči a múdry podľa mlčania.
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“Efficiency is the capacity to bring proficiency into expression.”
Efektívnosť je schopnosť vniesť zručnosť do prejavu.
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.”
Existujú dva typy chudobných ľudí: tí, ktorí sú chudobní spolu, a tí, ktorí sú chudobní sami. Tí prví sú skutočne chudobní, tí druhí sú bohatí ľudia, ktorí nemajú šťastie.
Act 4, sc. 5
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them.”
Spánok. Tie malé kúsky smrti. Ako ich nenávidím.
Various forms of this quote are attributed to Poe, primarily by a title card in the movie A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, though there is no record of his having ever said it.
Misattributed
“Shadow in the flame. The flame is not so bright to itself as to those on whom it shines: so too the wise man.”
Tieň v plameni. Plameň sa sebe nezdá byť taký jasný ako tým, na ktorých svieti: je to tak aj pri múdrych ľuďoch.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“Oh, beauty, are you not enough?
Why am I crying after love?”
Ach, krása, či ti to nestačí? Prečo plačem po láske?
"Spring Night"
Rivers to the Sea (1915)
“Everything is on loan in life—everything.”
V živote je všetko požičané - všetko.
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
Attributed to Laozi in self-help books and on social media, this quotation is of unknown origin and date.
Misattributed
“The world turns and the world changes,
But one thing does not change.
In all of my years, one thing does not change,
However you disguise it, this thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.”
Svet sa točí a svet sa mení, ale jedna vec sa nemení. Za všetky moje roky sa jedna vec nikdy nezmenila. Bez ohľadu na to, ako ju zamaskujete, táto vec sa nemení: Večný boj Dobra a Zla.
Choruses from The Rock (1934)
“Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.”
Prechod z obrany do útoku je jednou z najchúlostivejších operácií vo vojne.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people.”
Skutoční vodcovia musia byť pripravení obetovať všetko za slobodu svojho ľudu.
Nelson Madenla on leadership, Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary celebrations, Kwadukuza, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (25 April 1998). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
1990s
“If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.”
Keby som mal zostaviť zoznam šiestich kníh, ktoré sa mali zachovať, keď všetky ostatné boli zničené, určite by som medzi ne zaradil Gulliverove cesty.
"Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" (1946)
“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
Najdôležitejšie v každom vzťahu nie je to, čo dostanete, ale to, čo dávate.
This Is My Story (1937)
“Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
Predpokladám, že múdrosť je správne využitie vedomostí. Vedieť neznamená byť múdry. Mnohí ľudia vedia veľa a sú o to väčšími hlupákmi. Niet takého blázna, ktorý by bol takým veľkým bláznom, ako vedomý blázon. Ale vedieť používať vedomosti znamená mať múdrosť.
The Fourfold Treasure (1871) No. 991 http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0991.htm
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Genius = jedno percento inšpirácia a deväťdesiatdeväť percent potu.
Spoken statement (c. 1903); published in Harper's Monthly (September 1932).
Variants:
None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Statement in a press conference (1929), as quoted in Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh (1987) by James D. Newton, p. 24.
Variant forms without early citation: "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
"Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration."
1900s
Varianta: Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety nine perspiration.
“If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.”
Ak vzájomná úcta vyplýva z jednostranného rešpektu, tak sa tak deje prostredníctvom opozície.
Zdroj: The Moral Judgment of the Child (1932), Ch. 2 : Adult Constraint and Moral Realism
“Effort is the oxygen for talent.”
Úsilie je kyslíkom pre talent.
From his various literature
Zdroj: These words are uttered by the lead character of his work with the same name - Sakharam Gatne.
“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton, Act I (1903)
The Admirable Crichton (1903)
Quoted in: Charlotte Gray. Mother Teresa: Her Mission to Serve God by Caring for the Poor. G. Stevens, (1988), p. 53
1980s
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
Z utrpenia sa dostaneme len vtedy, keď ho naplno prežijeme.
On ne guérit d'une souffrance qu'à condition de l'éprouver pleinement.
Zdroj: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VI: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1925), Ch. I: "Grief and Oblivion"
“Destination and paths. Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination.”
Cieľ a cesty. Mnoho ľudí si potrpí na cestu, ale len málo na cieľ.
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 494
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“I had day visions — they would take advantage of me.”
Cited in Whitney Museum of American Art (1975 Brochure), "Minnie Evans" Call number ND237.E78 W43 1975
“I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.”
Vždy sa vraciam, ale nikto mi nikdy nepovie, kde som bol.
Zdroj: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), Ch. 23.
“To surprise the enemy is to defeat him.”
Prekvapiť nepriateľa znamená poraziť ho.
As Military Adviser in China - Page 245 by Aleksandr Ivanovich Cherepanov - China - 1982.
“The war [World War 1. ] is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines.”
Quote from 'Life and Work', in Hugo Ball on Wikipedia
his remark after witnessing the invasion of Belgium by the German armies, in the start of World War 1. in 1914
before 1916
“History is at once freedom and necessity.”
Dejiny sú zároveň slobodou a nevyhnutnosťou.
Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971).
“Better to put things at the worst at first, and reserve the best for a surprise.”
Je lepšie prekonať najprv to najhoršie a nechať si to najlepšie ako prekvapenie.
Mieux vaut mettre les choses au pis tout de suite, répondit l’ingénieur, et ne se réserver que la surprise du mieux.
Part I, ch. IX
The Mysterious Island (1874)
Kontext: Better to put things at the worst at first," replied the engineer, "and reserve the best for a surprise.
“If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.”
Ak sa bojíte samoty, nežeňte sa.
Note-Book of Anton Chekhov (1921)
“Mercy is of greater value than justice.”
Milosť má väčšiu hodnotu ako spravodlivosť.
La clémence vaut mieux que la justice.
Zdroj: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 174.
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”
Nie je možné žiť bez toho, aby ste v niečom zlyhali, ledaže by ste žili tak opatrne, že by ste možno ani poriadne nežili - v takom prípade zlyhávate automaticky.
Harvard address (2008)
“Nevertheless I long—I pine, all my days—
to travel home and see the dawn of my return.”
Napriek tomu túžim - celé dni túžim - cestovať domov a vidieť úsvit môjho návratu.
V. 219–220 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“[E]ven stupidity is better than totalitarianism.”
Aj hlúposť je lepšia ako totalita.
"As I Please," Tribune (10 March 1944)<sup> http://alexpeak.com/twr/orwell/quotes/</sup>
As I Please (1943–1947)
“The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too.”
Cieľom liberalizmu je mierová spolupráca všetkých ľudí. Usiluje sa aj o mier medzi národmi.
Omnipotent Government : The Rise of the Total State and Total War (1944) http://mises.org/etexts/mises/og.asp
Kontext: The goal of liberalism is the peaceful cooperation of all men. It aims at peace among nations too. When there is private ownership of the means of production everywhere and when laws, the tribunals and the administration treat foreigners and citizens on equal terms, it is of little importance where a country's frontiers are drawn.... War no longer pays; there is no motive for aggression.... All nations can coexist peacefully...
“Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.”
Život nie je prostriedkom na dosiahnutie estetického ideálu dokonalosti, naopak, práca je etickým symbolom života.
Reflections of a Non-Political Man [Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen] (1918)
Kontext: The important thing for me, then, is not the "work," but my life. Life is not the means for the achievement of an esthetic ideal of perfection; on the contrary, the work is an ethical symbol of life.
“Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well.”
Dobre písať bolo takmer to isté ako dobre myslieť a dobre myslieť bolo skoro to isté ako dobre konať.
Zdroj: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4
Kontext: Writing well was almost the same as thinking well, and thinking well was the next thing to acting well. All moral discipline, all moral perfection derived from the soul of literature, from the soul of human dignity, which was the moving spirit of both humanity and politics. Yes, they were all one, one and the same force, one and the same idea, and all of them could be comprehended in one single word... The word was — civilization!
“Fortune favors the bold.”
Odvážnemu šťastie praje
Audentes fortuna iuvat.
Variant translations:
Fortune favors the brave.
Fortune helps the daring.
Fortune sides with him who dares.
Compare:
Fortibus est fortuna viris data.
Fortune is given to brave men.
Ennius, Annales, 257
Zdroj: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book X, Line 284
“In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die.”
O chvíľu bude po všetkom. Možno zlyháme. Ale práva, za ktoré bojujeme, nezomrú.
Letter from Batoche, N.W. T. to The Irish World (6 May 1885), also published as " An Appeal for Justice" in The Gibbet of Regina : The Truth about Riel, Sir John A. Macdonald and His Cabinet Before Public Opinion, by One who Knows (1886) by One who knows, Napoléon Thompson, p. 186
Kontext: In a little while it will be all over. We may fail. But the rights for which we contend will not die. A day of reckoning will come to our enemies and of jubilee to my people. The hated yoke of English domination and arrogance will be broken in this land, and the long-suffering victims of their injustice will, with God's blessing, re-enter into the peaceful enjoyment of their possessions.
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation.”
Myslím si, že veľkou chybou v školách je snaha naučiť deti čokoľvek a pritom používať strach ako základnú motiváciu.
Quoted in Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine (2013) by Phillipe Mather, p. 46
Kontext: I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
“Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.”
Keď raz prijmete existenciu Boha - nech už ho definujete akokoľvek, nech už si vysvetľujete svoj vzťah k nemu akokoľvek - potom ste navždy uchvátení jeho prítomnosťou uprostred všetkého.
The Clowns of God (1981)
Kontext: Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Author's Note (at the beginning of the novel) <!-- p. 9 -->
“Every society is a moral society.”
Každá spoločnosť je morálna spoločnosť.
Zdroj: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 228
Kontext: Every society is a moral society. In certain respects, this character is even more pronounced in organised societies. Because the individual is not sufficient unto himself, it is from society that he receives everything necessary to him, as it is for society that he works.
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
Smrť nie je to najhoršie zlo, ale skôr to, keď chceme zomrieť a nemôžeme.
Electra, 1007.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.”
Každý okamih je posvätný. Dajte každému okamihu jasnosť a zmysel, každému váhu svojho vedomia, každému jeho pravé a náležité naplnenie.
Zdroj: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Kontext: Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”
Veriť znamená oddať sa vode. Keď plávaš, nechytáš sa vody, pretože ak by si sa jej chytil, utopil by si sa. Namiesto toho sa uvoľníš a vznášaš sa.
The Essence of Alan Watts (1977)
“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
Kde je láska a múdrosť, tam nie je strach ani nevedomosť.
The Counsels of the Holy Father St. Francis, Admonition 27.
Kontext: Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view.”
Dejiny takmer vždy píšu víťazi a dobyvatelia a podávajú ich pohľad na ne.
The Discovery of India (1946), pp. 287-8.
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
Byť slobodný totiž neznamená len zbaviť sa vlastných pút, ale žiť tak, aby sme rešpektovali a posilňovali slobodu druhých.
1990s, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
Kontext: It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say that has now been achieved. But I know that that is not the case. The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.
“The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.”
Vedec verí v dôkaz bez istoty, fanatik v istotu bez dôkazu.
The second sentence is often misquoted as “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.” or “Religion gives us certainty without proof; science gives us proof without certainty.”
Kontext: Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Naše srdce je pokladnica; ak z neho vysypeme všetko jeho bohatstvo naraz, zbankrotujeme.
Part I.
Le Père Goriot (1835)
Kontext: Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
“There are only two forces that unite men — fear and interest.”
Ľudí spájajú len dve sily - strach a záujem.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Kontext: There are only two forces that unite men — fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.
“Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.”
Bojujte a vyhráte. Boh totiž udeľuje víťazstvo vytrvalým.
As quoted in Simón Bolívar (1969) by Gerhard Masur
Kontext: Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves. Fight, and you shall win. For God grants victory to perseverance.
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding.”
Zlo, ktoré je na svete, vždy pochádza z nevedomosti a dobré úmysly môžu napáchať rovnako veľa škody ako zlé úmysly, ak im chýba pochopenie.
The Plague (1947)
Kontext: The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
“Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.”
Ak sa stanete ovcami, zožerú vás vlci.
Letter to Thomas Cushing (1773) http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/franklin-the-works-of-benjamin-franklin-vol-vi-letters-and-misc-writings-1772-1775#lf1438-06_head_007.
Kontext: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
“Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.”
Od tej chvíle sa mi snaha o ukončenie vojny zdala a stále zdá byť jediným politickým cieľom, ktorý má zmysel.
A Great Experiment (1941), p. 189
Kontext: The truth is, I was never a very good Party man. Probably but for the War of 1914, I should have gone on fairly comfortably as a Conservative official. But those four years burnt into me the insufferable conditions of international relations which made war the acknowledged method — indeed, the only fully authorized method — of settling international disputes. Thenceforth, the effort to abolish war seemed to me, and still seems to me, the only political object worth while.
“Art should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.”
Umenie by malo byť niečím, čo oslobodzuje dušu, podnecuje predstavivosť a podnecuje ľudí ísť ďalej.
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ”
Nikto sa nemôže vrátiť späť a začať odznova, ale každý môže začať dnes a utvoriť nový koniec.
“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else.”
Schopnosť sústrediť sa a dobre využívať svoj čas je všetko, čo potrebujete, ak chcete uspieť v podnikaní - a takmer kdekoľvek inde.
“Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.”
Niekedy sú jednoduché veci najťažšie dosiahnuteľné.
“In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.”
V Európe nezáleží na tom, či ste muž alebo žena - milujeme sa s každým, koho považujeme za atraktívneho.
“The soul needs more space than the body.”
Duša potrebuje viac priestoru ako telo.
“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.”
Rešpekt si musíte zaslúžiť. Úprimnosť sa cení. Dôvera sa získava. Lojalita sa vracia.
“No matter how educated, rich, talented or famous you believe you are, how you treat people is ultimately what will tell all.”
Bez ohľadu na to, ako veľmi ste vzdelaní, bohatí, talentovaní alebo slávni, to, ako sa správate k ľuďom, nakoniec vypovedá o všetkom.
“Truth is simple. Very simple – so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it.”
Pravda je jednoduchá. Veľmi jednoduchá - taká jednoduchá, že ju pochopí aj dieťa. V skutočnosti je taká jednoduchá, že ju môže pochopiť len dieťa. Pokiaľ sa opäť nestanete dieťaťom, nebudete schopní ju pochopiť.
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
Sme sopky. Keď my ženy ponúkneme svoje skúsenosti ako svoju pravdu, ako ľudskú pravdu, všetky mapy sa zmenia. Vznikajú nové hory.
Bryn Mawr Commencement Address https://books.google.com/books?id=QK6TYg32CocC&pg=PA160 (1986), in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1997), p. 160
“You win some, you lose some. And when you lose, you have to pull yourself together and go back for more. Otherwise, the other side wins by default.”
Niečo vyhráte, niečo prehráte. A keď prehrávate, musíte sa spamätať a vrátiť sa späť. V opačnom prípade druhá strana automaticky vyhrá.
Classified Appendix (p. 354)
The Laundry Files, The Apocalypse Codex (2012)
“What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!”
Aké upokojujúce je zbadať jednu známu tvár v hučiacej divočine cudzincov.
Zdroj: Anne of the Island (1915), Ch. 3
“Secrets have power over us. Only when secrets are revealed can truth be known and freedom brought about.”
Tajomstvá majú nad nami moc. Len keď sa tajomstvá odhalia, môžeme spoznať pravdu a dosiahnuť slobodu.
Zdroj: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 107
“Unspoken is whatever
we have not desired with all our heart.”
Nevyslovené je čokoľvek po čom sme netúžili celým srdcom.
Zdroj: The self-criticism of science
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
Nikdy nebudete šťastní, ak budete pokračovať v hľadaní toho, z čoho šťastie pozostáva. Nikdy nebudete žiť naplno, ak hľadáte zmysel života.
Zdroj: "Intuitions" (October 1932), published in Youthful Writings (1976)
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
Radšej by som zomrel od vášne ako od nudy.
Not by van Gogh, but from Emile Zola's novel The Ladies' Paradise (1883)
Misattributed
“It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife.”
Je to ako mať desaťtisíc lyžíc, keď potrebujete iba jeden nôž.
"Ironic"
Jagged Little Pill (1995)
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Zlyhať na vlastnej ceste je lepšie ako ísť správne na ceste niekoho iného.
Zdroj: Crime and Punishment (Zločin a trest)
“Life is like a sewer — what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”
Život je ako kanál - to, čo z neho dostanete, závisí od toho, čo do neho vložíte.
It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.
Introduction to "We Will All Go Together When We Go"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
“Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?”
Viete si predstaviť, čo by som spravil, keby som mohol urobiť všetko, čo dokážem?
“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.”
Veda a technológia prinášajú do nášho života revolúciu, ale naša reakcia na ňu je založená na spomienkach, tradícii a mýtoch.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Nikto nás nezachráni, iba my sami. Nikto nemôže a nikto nesmie. My sami sa musíme vydať po tejto ceste.
“The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.”
Najväčšou prekážkou spojenia sa s našou radosťou je odpor.