Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

  • -- Denis Diderot 狄德罗

夜晚漫步在浩瀚的森林里,只有微弱的灯光指引着我。一个陌生人出现了,对我说:‘朋友,你应该吹灭蜡烛,以便更清楚地找到路。“这个陌生人是个神学家。

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

只有一个人的基本思想中才有真理和生命。因为这是他真正完全理解的。读别人的思想,就像吃别人吃剩的饭,就像穿陌生人丢弃的衣服。

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

一个女人能够爱另一个女人,这是历史的真理;但是从来没有一个人不听她自己的赞美而牺牲了她心爱的朋友。

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

情人比任何逻辑学家或神学家都更了解绝对的善和普遍的美,除非神学家也是乔装打扮的情人。

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

我把你当作我的朋友,请你分享我现在的缺点,希望我能请你分享我将来的优点。

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.

爱的理论可以在科学家、哲学家和神学家的著作中找到。

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

只要你看到有陌生人对我做了什么,那就是我。