Does he have a view?“Yes”, he says, “and I've never told anyone.But it changes too.” He quotes Voltaire: “Doubt is not a pleasant position, but certainty is absurd.

他说“当然，我没告诉任何人，不过现在也改变想法了”他引用伏尔泰的名言：“怀疑固然不好，但确信更为荒谬。”

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To inquire after the meaning or object of one's own existence or that of all creatures has always seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view.

要追究一个人自己或一切生物生存的意义或目的，从客观的观点看来，我总觉得是愚蠢可笑的。

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To inquire after the meaning or object of one's own existence or that of all creatures hasalways seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view.

客观地说，探求自己或者其他所有生命存在的意义或者目标，我一直都认为是荒唐之举。

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On the face of things, such a stringent world view would sound absurd in the chaotic diversity of modern Britain.

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Either we must conclude that even ants are capable of such empathic suffering, which seems absurd, or we must view the rat experiments as proving nothing about psychological motivation, leaving human beings on a pedestal.

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