“The great irony of the modern period is that the "disenchantment of the world" that supposedly came with the rise of science was actually an impoverishment of thought, a collapse of attention.”
英语
“现代的巨大讽刺在于，据说随科学兴起而来的"世界的祛魅"，实际上是思想的贫乏化，是注意力的崩塌。”
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”
英语
“活在这世上有千千万万个理由，每一个都足够充分。”
“It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance momentarily — all that is alive. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.”
英语
“我有时觉得，仿佛上帝向这灰暗的造物余烬吹了一口气，它便瞬间化为光辉——一切有生命的事物。无论你将目光投向何处，世界都能如同显圣般闪耀。”
“I feel sometimes as if I were a child who opens its eyes on the world once and sees amazing things it will never know any names for and then has to close its eyes again.”
英语
“我有时觉得自己像一个孩子，睁开眼睛看了一次世界，看到了永远不会知道名字的奇妙事物，然后不得不再次闭上眼睛。”
“When do we ever get to the point where we can be content with what we have given to the world? We are dissatisfied creatures, and that is our glory.”
英语
“我们何时才能满足于自己已给予世界的东西？我们是永不满足的生物，而那正是我们的荣耀。”
“A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, that does not understand that the only safeguard against being combative and aggressive is being generous — that culture has no future.”
英语
“一种不能领会道德与权力之间至关重要的相互作用的文化，不理解抵御好斗与侵略的唯一保障是慷慨的文化——那种文化没有未来。”
“Grace has a grand laughter in it. It is a series of startlements; none of the certainties of religion, but all the surprise of grace.”
英语
“恩典之中蕴含着一种宏大的欢笑。它是一连串的惊愕；没有宗教的确定性，却有恩典的全部惊奇。”
“The mind, whatever else it might be, is a constant of self-surpassing, a slipping of the ordinary constraints of nature. This is what we are as a species — the creatures who can be astonished by our own existence.”
英语
“心灵，无论它还是什么，都是一种不断自我超越的常量，一种对自然寻常约束的滑脱。这就是我们作为一个物种的本质——能够被自身存在所震惊的生物。”