神与神圣
“这怎么可能！这位森林里的老圣人还不知道，上帝死了！”
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“Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that GOD IS DEAD!”
— 尼采, Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“你为自己创造了我们，我们的心若不安息在你怀中，便不得安宁。”
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“Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.”
— 奥古斯丁, The Confessions of St. Augustine
“我们称之为上帝或自然的永恒无限的存在，其作用遵循与它存在时相同的必然性。”
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“The eternal and infinite Being, which we call God or Nature, acts by the same necessity as that whereby it exists.”
— 巴鲁赫·斯宾诺莎, Ethics — Part 4
“精神永恒，无生无死，永不改变。”
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“Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever.”
— 薄伽梵歌, Bhagavad Gita (The Song Celestial)
“一个无法想象出比它更伟大的存在。”
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“A being than which nothing greater can be conceived.”
— 坎特伯雷的安瑟伦, Proslogium, Monologium, and Cur Deus Homo (Deane)
“如果上帝真的存在，就有必要废除他。”
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“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
— 米哈伊尔·巴枯宁, God and the State
“人确实是彻头彻尾的疯子；他造不出一只蠕虫，却要成打地制造上帝。”
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“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
— 米歇尔·德·蒙田, Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete
“我们对具体事物理解得越多，我们就越理解上帝。”
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“The more we understand particular things, the more do we understand God.”
— 巴鲁赫·斯宾诺莎, Ethics
“天堂的合唱团和大地上的陈设……如果没有心灵，就没有任何存在。”
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“All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth... have not any subsistence without a mind.”
— 乔治·贝克莱, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
“总的来说，宗教上的错误是危险的；哲学上的错误仅仅是荒谬的。”
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“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
— 大卫·休谟, A Treatise of Human Nature
“宇宙要么是混乱的拆解与重组，要么是秩序与远见的统一体。”
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“The Universe is either a confusion ravelled and unravelled again, or else a unity compact of order and forethought.”
— 马可·奥勒留, The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“天堂不仅在我们头顶，也在我们脚下。”
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
— 亨利·戴维·梭罗, Walden, or Life in the Woods
“道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。”
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“The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unchanging name.”
— 老子, The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics
“星、翳、灯、幻、露、泡。梦、电、云——我们应当这样看待世界。”
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“Stars, darkness, a lamp, a phantom, dew, a bubble. A dream, a flash of lightning, and a cloud - thus we should look upon the world.”
— 大乘经, Buddhist Mahayana Texts: Diamond Sutra, Heart Sutra, Sukhavativyuha (SBE XLIX)
“我自身能够从火宅中通过门，安全且迅速地出来……但我的孩子们，那些年幼的男孩，却留在火宅中，玩耍、嬉戏，沉溺于各种游戏之中。”
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“I myself am able to come out from the burning house through the door, quickly and safely... but my children, those young boys, are staying in the burning house, playing, amusing, and diverting themselves with all sorts of sports.”
— 法华经, The Saddharma-Pundarika (Lotus of the True Law, SBE XXI)
“其他事物包含万物的一部分，但心灵是无限的、自主的，不与任何事物混合，而是独自存在。”
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“Other things include a portion of everything, but mind is infinite and self-powerful and mixed with nothing, but it exists alone itself by itself.”
— 阿那克萨哥拉, The fragments of Anaxagoras (Fairbanks)
“世人哪，耶和华已指示你何为善。祂向你所要的是什么呢？只要你行公义，好怜悯，存谦卑的心，与你的神同行。”
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“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”
— 圣经, The Holy Bible (King James Version)
“传道者说：虚空的虚空，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。”
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“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
— 圣经, The Holy Bible (King James Version)
“宗教无强迫。”
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“Let there be no compulsion in Religion.”
— 古兰经, The Qur'an
“因此，既然恩典并不摧毁自然，而是使其完善，那么自然理性应当服务于信仰，正如意志的自然倾向服务于仁爱一样。”
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“Since therefore grace does not destroy nature but perfects it, natural reason should minister to faith as the natural bent of the will ministers to charity.”
— 托马斯·阿奎那, Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars)