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确定
Certainty
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?
原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问，如果我们不能相信圣经，我们能相信什么?
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..
难道这不是产生新确定性的最深刻怀疑的时刻吗?也许绝望正是滋养人类希望的土壤;也许一个人如果不首先体验生活的荒谬性，就永远找不到生活的意义。
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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
要确信地相信，我们必须从怀疑开始。
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
对确定性的追求阻碍了对意义的探索。不确定性正是促使人展现其力量的条件。
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
然而，只有关于地球上的生命，人们才能有把握地说出来。在我看来，地球上所有的生命，地球上所有生命的总和，都是有目的的。
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
没有一件伟大的事情是由寻求确定性的弱者完成的。
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
最好的缺乏所有的信念，而最差的充满激情的强度。
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
探究对确定性是致命的。