There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

  • -- Bertrand Russell 罗素

一个人如果没有舒适的神话的帮助,就不能面对生活的危险,这人有一点软弱和可鄙。

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It was also Hegel who established the view that the different philosophic systems that we find in history are to be comprehended in terms of development and that they are generally one-sided because they owe their origins to a reaction against what has gone before.

黑格尔也建立了这样一种观点,即我们在历史上发现的不同的哲学体系必须从发展的角度来理解,而这些体系通常是片面的,因为它们的起源是对过去的事物的一种反应。

O mankind, We have created you male and female, and appointed you races and tribes, that you may know one another. Surely the noblest among you in the sight of God is the most god fearing of you. God is All-knowing, All-aware.

人类啊,我们创造了你们男性和女性,指定了你们种族和部落,好让你们彼此认识。在神面前,你们中间谁为大,谁就敬畏你。神是全知的,全知的。

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it

一位哲学家说,宇宙中最伟大的目标是与逆境抗争的好人;然而还有一位更大的,就是前来救他的那良善人

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

当我看到水手、科学家和哲学家时,人类是所有生物中最聪明的;我看祭司和先知,没有比人更可藐视的。

None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

神所造的人,没有一个在本质上是可鄙的;最吝啬的苍蝇,最贫穷的昆虫也有它的用处和生命力。

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

我们的目标应该是让我们的孩子成为好人,过有道德的生活,表现出对他人和自己的关心。

Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

不要说事情。这段时间,你是什么东西一直站在你的面前,不停地打雷,所以我听不见你说什么相反的话。

A good lie does not exist.

好的谎言是不存在的。