How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

  • -- Edwin Way Teale 艾温·威·蒂尔

少数人的苦难是多么鲜明,而人民是多么稀少,两次世界大战中无数无名百姓的苦难是多么被数字模糊了。

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It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

人们普遍认为,与事实相反,有神论必然包含两个假设,这两个假设不能与如此多的痛苦的存在相符合,因此,就不可能而言,它们只能以某种方式与所有这些痛苦的存在相符合。

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

最好的历史不过是伦勃朗的艺术;它生动地揭示了某些特定的原因,那些最好的和最伟大的原因;它把其余的一切都留在阴影里,看不见。

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

我对那些有残疾和正在遭受痛苦的人有了更多的了解。