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PAGE PAGE 1 A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.从阿米巴变形虫到人类的这一过程对哲学家来说，很明显是个进步。但是变形虫怎么想我们就不知道了。 It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.据说人是一种理性动物。穷我自己一生，我都在寻找这观点的证据。 Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.人是轻信的动物，必须得相信点什么。如果这种信仰没有什么好的依据，糟糕的依据也能对付。 I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.我永远不会为信仰而死，因为我的信仰可能是错的。 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.不要害怕怀有怪念头，因为现在人们接受的所有的观念都曾经是怪念头。 A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.生活中完全没有冒险，这可能是没什么意思的。但是生活中如果不管什么种类的探险都有，那肯定是短暂的。 Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.我曾相信，所有值得知道之事，我在剑桥都知道了。在我旅行的过程之中，这一想法逐渐消失了。这与我本意相反，但是却对我非常有益。 Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.有很多人，让他们思考一下还不如让他们去死。事实上，很多人还没思考过就已经死了。 Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.很多人可以勇敢的死去，但是却没有勇气说他为之而死的原因没有意义，甚至连这样想一想的勇气也没有。 Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.对幸福的轻蔑通常是对其他人幸福的轻蔑，在精巧的伪装之下是对人类的仇恨。 Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who ll get the blame.民主，就是挑选那个受批评的人的过程。 Drunkenness is temporary suicide.喝醉是暂时性的自杀。 I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the wor