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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Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

存在不过是在过去、现在和未来的剧烈流动中,不稳定地获得相关性。

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。

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

愿我的灵魂在对所有存在的爱中绽放。