It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

  • -- Thomas Aquinas 托马斯·阿奎那

必须假定某物是它自身所必需的,并且在它自身之外没有它的必然性的原因,而在别的事物里却是必然性的原因。所有人都称这个为上帝。

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Show business is part of a larger culture, a world-wide culture that must make up to the fact that the accumulation of things doesn't make a life necessary any happier or purposeful.

娱乐业是一个更大的文化的一部分,一个世界性的文化,它必须弥补这样一个事实:物质的积累并不会让生活变得更快乐或更有意义。

Literature is about as unnecessarily necessarily as tableware or ironed shirts.

文学就像餐具或熨过的衬衫一样,是不必要的。