We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

  • -- Jonathan Sacks 乔纳森·萨克斯

我们是生物。我们出生,我们生活,我们死亡。存在没有超越的目的。我们至多是理性的产物,通过理性,我们可以治愈自己的情感过剩。清除了希望和恐惧,我们在无助、渺小和不确定中找到了勇气。

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There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

总会有一些傻瓜——他们通常以“制作人”的名义出现——他们必须证明自己的存在,并加以干涉。

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

自我控制意味着想要在我精神存在的无限辐射的某个随机点上有效。

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

为死者过度悲伤是疯狂的;因为这是活人所受的伤,死人却不知道。

There is moderation even in excess.

适度甚至是过度的。