We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

  • -- Jonathan Sacks 乔纳森·萨克斯

我们是生物。我们出生,我们生活,我们死亡。存在没有超越的目的。我们至多是理性的产物,通过理性,我们可以治愈自己的情感过剩。清除了希望和恐惧,我们在无助、渺小和不确定中找到了勇气。

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But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

但当我十二岁的时候,我第一次强烈地看到了存在的基本力量之一,它是我注定要终生追随的——那就是美。

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

做一个人,就是不停地摇动着生存之笼的铁栏门,大声喊道:“这是干什么用的?”

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

我认为这是生活中一个有价值的原则:不要做任何事情过度。

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

与稀缺串通一气比与过剩串通一气更有益。