Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

  • -- Baruch Spinoza 斯宾诺莎

罪不能在自然状态下孕育,而只能在公民状态下孕育,在公民状态下,罪是好是坏是由共同同意决定的。

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I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

无论我做什么或说什么,我都没有权利在一个人的眼里贬低他。重要的不是我对他的看法;这是他对自己的看法。破坏一个人的自尊是一种罪过。

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

现在,作为一名科幻小说家,当我看到一个自然法则时,我怀疑它是否会失败。

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

我怎样才能在失去罪恶的同时保持理智,又爱冒犯者,又厌恶冒犯者呢?

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.

我们对古董的赞美不是对古人的赞美,而是对自然的赞美。