The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

只要生命存在,就必须相信某种东西,这种残忍的必要性并不特别证明任何信仰是正当的。

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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

据说,一位东方君主曾经命令他的智者为他编造一个句子,让他随时出现在眼前,而且这个句子在任何时候和任何情况下都应该是正确和恰当的。他们对他说:“这一切都会过去的。”

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.

有信心就是把自己托付给水。当你游泳时,你不会抓住水,因为如果你这样做,你会沉下去淹死。相反,你放松,漂浮。

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

我以圣人的希望为指导:在关键的事情上,团结一致;在重要的事情上,多样性;凡事慷慨。

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

你出生在光的奇妙秘密的孩子-你回到你一直是美丽的。

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

如果我能阻止一颗心的破碎,我就不会白活。

Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.

科学一旦采纳了某种信条,就等于自杀。