The cleverest defenders of a faith are its greatest enemies; for their subtleties engender doubt and stimulate the mind. 對于一種信仰，最擁護它的也是它最大的敵人，因為細微的差別都引起其關(guān)注和思考。
也是因為這樣，（I think，therefore I am）他失去了原有的信仰，原為猶太教會最喜歡的學(xué)生斯賓諾莎后被開除教籍。
Spinosa sufferred from the loss of his old faith; to so uproot the contents of one's mind is a major operation, and leaves many wounds. 根除思想的內(nèi)核是一項大手術(shù)，會使人傷痕累累。
Emma作為一名有宗教信仰的信徒，可以為這句話證明，思想的改變是顛覆性的改變。
從此不信神的斯賓諾莎，在一個信神的環(huán)境里絕對不好過，但他是為自己而活了。因為了解的不多，不能結(jié)合他的生平談他思想的產(chǎn)生過程，但是僅僅嘗到他的這些果實，也是足以果腹啦。
Only knowledge, then, is power and freedom; and the only permanent happiness is the pursiuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding. (只有還是能帶來力量和自由，唯一的永恒快樂就是追逐知識和理解的愉悅。)
就來看看這位理性主義是怎樣的好玩吧。 “By virtue and power I mean the same thing; the more a man can preserve his being and seek what is useful to him, the greater is his virtue.” 他認為德行是行動的力量。 He thinks that egoism is a necessary corollary of the supreme instinct of self-preservation. No one ever neglect anything which he judges to be good, except with the hope of gaining a gretaer good.人們不會忽略自己認為好的，除非想得到更好的。
Passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead. (沒有理性的激情是盲目的，沒有激情的理性是死寂的。) 思想不應(yīng)缺乏欲望之火，而欲望而不應(yīng)喪失思想的光輝。
Freedom is not from casual law or process, but from partial passion or impulse; and freedomis not from passion, but from uncoordinated and uncompleted passion. (自由并不是擺脫常規(guī)的規(guī)律或過程，而是擺脫了部分的激情；自由也不是擺脫激情，而是擺脫了未經(jīng)調(diào)節(jié)和不顧大局的激情。） 所以說，自由，往往不在枷鎖之中。
All education presupposes determinism, and pours into the open mind of youth a store of prohibitions which are exoected to participate in determining conduct. 所有教育的目的都是決定主義的，對年輕的思想灌輸一套禁忌，期望這些禁忌能夠參與他們行為的決策。
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life. 一個自由的人不考慮死，他智慧的思考不在于死而在于生。
救贖若唾手可得，又怎會人人忽視呢？ All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.卓越總是少數(shù)的，故難以尋覓。
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