Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

  • -- Epicurus 伊壁鸠鲁

神愿意阻止邪恶,却不能吗? 那么他不是全能的。 他能,但不愿意吗? 那么他是恶毒的。 他既能干又愿意吗? 那么邪恶从何而来? 他既不能也不愿意吗? 那为什么叫他上帝?

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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

很少有国家穷到只有一个上帝。神是如此容易造出来的,原料成本又如此之低,以致神的市场一般都相当饱和,天堂里挤满了这些幽灵。

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

我们只能把自己的罪恶写得很好,因为我们很难回忆起一件善行,甚至是善恶动机的结果。

Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.

祸不单行,祸不单行。

I oscillate between agnosticism and atheism.

我在不可知论和无神论之间摇摆不定。