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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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

第三,即使我们假定世界是由目的所统治的,我们只需要补充一点,即这个目的- -如果有几个,至少有一个- -并不是特别有意防止痛苦,不管它是对痛苦漠不关心,还是实际上对痛苦感到高兴。

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。

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

当我们爱的时候,我们是最能抵抗痛苦的。