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.

  • -- Robert G. Ingersoll 格索

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。

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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

无论在我的生活中还是在我的绘画中,我都可以很好地没有上帝,但我不能,尽管我很痛苦,没有比我更伟大的东西,那就是我的生命,创造的力量。

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

我不认为被称为不可知论者是一种侮辱,而是一种赞美。我并不假装知道许多无知的人肯定在哪里——这就是不可知论的全部含义。

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

难道不是有一些精心挑选的诅咒,有一些藏在天上的雷霆,带着不寻常的愤怒,把一个把自己的伟大归功于国家毁灭的人炸飞吗?

Heaven might not be what everyone thinks it is, but that don’t mean it’s a myth.

天堂也许不是每个人所想的那样,但这并不意味着它是一个神话。