There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

  • -- Robert G. Ingersoll 格索

当人们在天上崇拜暴君的时候,地球上就不会有什么自由了。

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They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

他们有能力夺走一个人的自由。在某些情况下,他们有能力取得一个人的声誉。在某些情况下,他们有权取人性命。

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

在此期间,我敬拜神,将一切不义的事放在我所尊重的禁令之下,我厌恶恶人,却不加害于他们。

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

大胆地质疑上帝的存在;因为,如果有的话,他一定更赞成理性的敬意,而不是盲目的恐惧。

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

幸福和自由始于对一个原则的清晰理解:有些事情在我们的控制之中,有些则不在。

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

让我们崇敬,让我们崇拜,但要挺直腰板,睁大眼睛,高高在上,而不是最低微;未来,而不是过去!

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

至于诸神,我既不知道它们存在,也不知道它们不存在。