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The secret of the human condition is that there is no equilibrium between man and the surrounding forces of nature, which infinitely exceed him when in inaction; there is only equilibrium in action...
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It is impossible for an order which is higher and therefore infinitely above another to be represented in it except by something infinitely small. A grain of mustard seed, an instant mirroring eter...
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关于这个神话的起源，参考柏拉图的《理想国》第六卷。崇拜“巨兽”意味着按照大众的偏见和反应思考和行动，损害所有个人对真理和善的追求。[编者注] The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry, the only e...
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Christendom has become totalitarian, conquering, and exterminating, because it has not developed the idea of God’s absence and non-activity here below. It has attached itself to Jehovah no less th...
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Man is a slave in so far as between action and its effect, between effort and the finished work, there is the interference of alien wills. This is the case both with the slave and the master today....
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Money, mechanization, algebra. The three monsters of contemporary civilization. Complete analogy. 金钱、机械化、代数，这三大当代文明的怪物，完全的类比。 小草笔记：薇依视这三个为“怪物”，因为它们在...
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Beauty is the harmony of chance and the good. 美是偶然与善的和谐。 小草笔记：美包含在意外和道德之间的平衡关系。 Beauty is necessity which, while remaining in conformity with its own law and with th...
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All created things refuse to be for me as ends. Such is God’s extreme mercy towards me. And that very thing is what constitutes evil. Evil is the form which God’s mercy takes in this world. This ...
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灵魂与宇宙的认同在这里与泛神论没有关系。只有通过爱紧紧依附于超越宇宙的神，人才能完全接受统治宇宙的盲目必然性。参见：“这个世界，既然完全空无神明，就是神自身。” [编者注] We are a part which has to ...
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裘格斯戒指出自柏拉图哲学杰作《理想国》（The Republic）中，柏拉图详细讲述了裘格斯的神话。一个名叫吕底亚（Lydia）的国家，有一个贫穷但诚实的牧羊人，他的名字叫裘格斯。有一天，他跟随羊群走进了一个隐蔽的...
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在薇依的语境中，“阅读”这个词意味着：情感解释，具体的价值判断。例如，我看到一个人爬过墙：本能地（或许错误地）；我在他身上‘读出’他是一个盗贼。[编者注] Others. To see each human being (an image of...
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We know by means of our intelligence that what the intelligence does not comprehend is more real than what it does comprehend. 我们通过智慧知道，那些智慧所不能理解的事物，比它所能理解的更为真实。 ...
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We have to accomplish the possible in order to touch the impossible. The correct exercise (according to our duty) of the natural faculties of will, love and knowledge is, in relation to spiritual r...
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We do not have to understand new things, but by dint of patience, effort and method to come to understand with our whole self the truths which are evident. 我们不必去理解新事物，而是通过耐心、努力...
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A case of contradictories which are true. God exists: God does not exist. Where is the problem? I am quite sure that there is a God in the sense that I am quite sure my love is not illusory. I am q...
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God can only be present in creation under the form of absence. 上帝只能以缺席的形式存在于创造之中。 小草笔记：这意味着，上帝并非以我们可以感知的形式存在，而是通过牺牲自己、隐退，让世界得以存在。这...
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The beings I love are creatures. They were born by chance. My meeting with them was also by chance. They will die. What they think, do and say is limited and is a mixture of good and evil. I have t...
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（小草笔记：薇依的思想充满了神秘主义的基督教色彩，其中“必然性”被赋予了神圣的意义，并与上帝的意志、善恶循环以及人类的终极目的紧密相关。为了让更多人理解薇依的智慧，而不受宗教信仰的限制，我尝试对其...
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The contradictions the mind comes up against—these are the only realities: they are the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessit...
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Human life is impossible. But it is only affliction which makes us feel this. 人类生活是不可能的。但只有苦难才能让我们感受到这一点。 小草笔记：薇依认为，生活中的苦难揭示了生活的不可能性。无神论者可...
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The cross as a balance, as a lever. A going down, the condition of a rising up. Heaven coming down to earth raises earth to heaven. 十字架是一架天秤，是一种杠杆。向下是向上的条件。天堂降临到地球，...
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Whoever takes up the sword shall perish by the sword. And whoever does not take up the sword (or lets it go) shall perish on the cross. 凡动刀的，必死在刀下。不动刀的（或收刀入鞘的）将在十字架上死...
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Death is the most precious thing which has been given to man. That is why the supreme impiety is to make a bad use of it. To die amiss. To kill amiss. (But how can we escape at the same time both f...
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Suffering: superiority of man over God. The Incarnation was necessary so that this superiority should not be scandalous. 受难：人的优越性凌驾于神之上。道成肉身是必要的，这样这种优越性就不会带来丑闻...
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Creation: good broken up into pieces and scattered throughout evil. 创造：通过恶，善被撕碎，和洒落。 小草笔记：这句话可以理解为善在恶的作用下被破坏和分散。薇依认为，恶具有消解和分裂善的力量，但同时...
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Love is a sign of our wretchedness. God can only love himself.We can only love something else. 爱是我们贫贱的一种标志。上帝只可能爱自己。我们只可能爱它物。 小草笔记：爱与贫贱：爱反映了人类的贫贱，...
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Idolatry comes from the fact that, while thirsting for absolute good, we do not possess the power of supernatural attention and we have not the patience to allow it to develop. 偶像崇拜源于这样一个...
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We are drawn towards a thing because we believe it is good. We end by being chained to it because it has become necessary. 我们被吸引到某物，因为我们认为它是好的。最终我们被其束缚，因为它变得必要了...
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小草笔记：在薇依思想中，必然性与上帝的关系： 1. 必然性与上帝的统一：薇依将上帝视为一切必然性的来源和本质。无论是自然界的运行还是人类命运中的不可避免事件，都是上帝的行动和存在方式。 2. 服从必然性：...
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God gave me being in order that I should give it back to him. It's Like one of those traps whereby the characters are tested in fairy stories and tales on initiation. If I accept this gift it is ba...
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（按：薇依的“decreation” ，可译为“去创造”或“去造化”。根据她对这个概念的定义，“去创造”是一种使既有的创造物返回未创造状态的过程。与之相对的是“destruction”（毁灭），即使既有的创造物变为虚无...
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We possess nothing in the world—a mere chance can strip us of everything—except the power to say ‘I’. That is what we have to give to God—in other words, to destroy. There is absolutely no oth...
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Purification is the separation of good from covetousness. 净化就是将善与贪欲分离。 We have to go down to the root of our desires in order to tear the energy from its object. That is where the des...
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Time is an image of eternity, but it is also a substitute for eternity. 时间是一种永恒的形象，但也是永恒的一种代用品。 The miser whose treasure has been taken from him. It is some of the frozen pas...
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The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissuresthrough which grace might pass. 想像始终致力于堵住神恩可能通过的隙缝。 Every void (not accepted) produces hatred, sourness, bit...
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Affliction in itself is not enough for the attainment of total detachment. Unconsoled affliction is necessary. There must be no consolation—no apparent consolation. Ineffable consolation then ...
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‘Tradition teaches us as touching the gods and experience shows us as regards men that, by a necessity of nature, every being invariably exercises all the power of which it is capable’ (Thucy-did...
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Human mechanics. Whoever suffers tries to communicate hissuffering (either by ill-treating someone or calling forth their pity) in order to reduce it, and he does really reduce it in this way. ...
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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. 灵魂的所有自然运动都受到类似于万有引力（重力/重负）法则的制约。神恩...
