The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

  • -- C. S. Lewis C.S.刘易斯

真正的问题不是为什么有些虔诚、谦卑、有信仰的人受苦,而是为什么有些人不受苦。

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There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

有一种永恒的建筑方式。它已经有一千年的历史了,今天和过去一样。过去伟大的传统建筑,村庄,帐篷和寺庙,让人有宾至如归的感觉,总是由离这条路很近的人建造的。

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.

人类能够而且必须预防未来的饥荒悲剧,而不是象他过去经常做的那样,仅仅怀着虔诚的遗憾试图挽救饥荒造成的人类残骸。

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

今天,人文学科需要抵御物理科学的侵蚀,就像它们曾经需要抵御神学的侵蚀一样。

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

我不看车祸,我知道有些人不看车祸,因为看着别人受苦让我们很不舒服。

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

人们需要意义就像他们需要空气一样。幸运的是,我们可以免费给予彼此意义。只要活着。

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

你无法用测量糖的方法来量化人类的疼痛。死亡一次只降临一个人。

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

也许这个世界是另一个星球的地狱。

Atheists are pious people.

无神论者是虔诚的人。