书城成功励志青春阅读——名人智慧之光(双语)
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第24章 宗教篇

All are not saints that go to church.

——Anonymous

去朝拜的不会是圣徒。

——无名氏

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

——Sir Thomas Brown, British physician

一切都是人造的,连大自然也是上帝的杰作。

——英国医生T.布朗爵士

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

——Robert G.Ingersoll, American orator

一个正直的上帝是人类最崇高的作品。

——美国演说家R. G.英格索

For me the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

——Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian statesman

在我看来,各种宗教都是出自同一座花园的美丽花朵,或者可以说都是同一颗大树的分枝。

所以,各种宗教都同样真实,虽然人们凭借着同等不完善的工具接受并且阐释它们。

——印度政治家M. K.甘地

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.

——Empedocles, Ancient Greek philosopher

上帝是个圆,圆心到处可见,圆周无处可寻。

——古希腊哲学家恩培多克勒

God is Love, I dare say, but what a mischievous devil Love is.

——Samuel Butler, British writer

我敢说,上帝就是爱神,但爱神又是多么淘气的魔鬼呀!

——英国作家S.勃特

God will pardon me, it is his trade.

——Heinrich Heine, German writer

上帝会原谅我的,这是他的职业。

——德国作家H.海涅

Heathen: n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

——Ambrose, bishop of Milan

异教徒:名词,愚昧无知的人,他崇拜某种看得见摸得着的东西。

——米兰主教安布罗斯

I believe that our Heaven Father invented man because he was disappointed in monkey.

——Mark Twain, American writer

我相信,我们的天父之所以创造人是因为猴子使他失望了。

——美国作家马克 · 吐温

I count religion but a children toy, and hold there are no sin but ignorance.

——Marlowe Christopher, British poet and dramatist

我视宗教为儿童玩具,我认为不存在什么罪恶,只存在愚昧。

——英国戏剧家、诗人M.克利斯多夫

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

——Voltaire, French philosopher

如果上帝并不存在,也有必要把他创造出来。

——法国哲学家伏尔泰

It is only fear first in the world that made gods.

——Samuel Johnson, British writer

最早在这个世界上创造众神的,无非是恐惧而已。

——英国作家S.约翰逊

It is the final proof of Gods omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

——Peter De Vires, American novelist

最终证明上帝是万能的,那就是他不必为了拯救我们而存在。

——美国小说家P.德夫里斯

Man was made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired.

——Mark Twain, American writer

人是上帝在周末的时候造出来的,经过七天劳累,上帝已经疲惫不堪了。

——美国作家马克 · 吐温

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

——Sir Thomas Brown, British physician

人们在宗教中失去理智最多,在那里石头和破布成了殉难者。

——英国医生T.布朗爵士

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.

——C.Colton Charles, British clergyman

人们为宗教而争吵, 为宗教而写作,为宗教而战斗,为宗教而献身,但决不为宗教而活着

——英国牧师C.C.查尔斯

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

——Blessingtom Marguerite, Irish writer

宗教将具有破坏力的绝望转化为令人俯首帖耳的绝望。

——爱尔兰作家B.玛格丽特

Religion is the opium of the people.

——Karl Marx, German revolutionary

宗教是麻醉人民的鸦片。

——德国革命家K.马克思

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

——Albert Einstein, American scientist

不带宗教的科学是瘸子,没有科学的宗教是瞎子。

——美国科学家A.爱因斯坦

Superstitions is the religion of feeble minds.

——Edmund Bruke, British artist

迷信是意志薄弱者的宗教。

——英国艺术家E.伯克

The noblest work of God?Man, Who found it out?Man.

——Mark Twain, American writer

神创造出来的东西中最高贵的作品是“人类”,若问这是谁找出的答案,也是“人类”。

——美国作家马克 · 吐温

The religion we call false was once true.

——Ralph Waldo Emerson, American thinker

我们斥之为错的宗教曾经一度是对的。

——美国思想家R. W.爱默生

The two great European narcotics: alcohol and Christianity.

——Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher

两种最厉害的欧洲麻醉剂是:烈性酒和基督教。

——德国哲学家F.尼采

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as religion, by persuading

others we convince.

——Junius, Unidentified letter writer

政治和宗教都存在着一种神圣的、错误的热情:在诱劝别人相信我们所相信的东西。

——国籍不明的书信代理人朱尼厄斯

To give and not to count the cost,

To fight and not to heed the wounds,

To toil and not to seek for rest,

To labor and not ask for any reward,

Save that of knowing that we do they will.

——St Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish priest

给予,不计较代价;

战斗,不顾伤亡;

劳作而不寻求安逸;

奉献而不要求奖赏——

只要我们在履行上帝的旨意。

——西班牙牧师罗耀拉·圣依纳爵

Who the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

——Cyril Connolly, British writer

上帝希望毁掉的人,首先把他们称为大有作为的人。

——英国作家C.康诺利

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first made mad.

——Euripiedes, Ancient Greek dramatist

上帝要谁灭亡,必先让他疯狂。

——古希腊剧作家欧里庇德斯

Without philosopher man cannot know what he makes, without religion he cannot know why.

——Eril Gill, UK sculptor

没有哲学,人们不可能知道自己创造了什么;没有宗教,人们不可能理解为什么。

——英国雕塑家E.吉尔

Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy, both your religio and policy must be based on it.

——John Ruskin, UK art critic

诚实不应当建立在宗教或政策的基础上。相反,宗教和政策都必须以诚实为基础。

——英国艺术评论家J.罗斯金