Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  • -- Iris Murdoch 默多克

艺术是人类灵魂最后的狡猾,它宁愿做任何事也不愿面对神。

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That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

凡从创世以来,生为人,死为死的,不是在天上,就是在地狱,这都是从上面所说的,所表明的事来的,也就是说,天堂和地狱都是从人来的。

Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.

如果没有超验的概念,人类就会变成动物;然而,只有傻瓜才会相信它,只有堕落的人才需要这样的信念。

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

我很傻,为了笑我什么都愿意做。