I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

  • -- Julia Sweeney 朱莉娅·斯威尼

在很长一段时间里,我一直信奉不可知论,因为我只是不愿意说我是一个无神论者——作为一个无神论者似乎太死板了。但我对这个词越熟悉,读得越多,它就越能让我接受。

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

你我从来没有不存在过,我们也不会停止存在。正如一个人在童年、青年和老年时期都住在身体里一样,他在死时也获得了另一个身体。聪明人不会被这些变化所迷惑。

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

他独自思考着,认真地绞尽脑汁,想为这一力量找到一个方向。他毫不怀疑,这一力量是阿基米德所寻求的杠杆,它能推动世界。

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

作家不可能被驯服,变得文明,甚至被治愈。目前科学界所知的唯一解决办法是为病人提供一间隔离室,在那里他可以独自忍受急性期,食物可以用棍子戳进他的身体。

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

成为无神论者需要无限的信心,而不是接受无神论所否认的所有伟大真理。

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

我们不能让自己偏离轨道,不管发生什么,我们必须坚持我们的自然游戏。

Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.

尽管我不相信上帝,但奇怪的是,我不得不与无神论者的标签作斗争。