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http://www.master-insight.com/content/article/2006

「對一個哲學家而言，金錢是一麻煩的東西。」

「智慧是『灰色』的，正因如此，它是帶點『笨』。另一方面，生命和宗教卻是色彩繽紛的。」（Wisdom is grey and to that extent stupid. Life on the other hand and religion are full of color.）

「明白這本書的人最後會得悉，其實這本書所説的一切都是「沒有意義」的，當他已借助它爬上、站在它身上，然後高於它之上。這情況就有如人在借助階梯爬了上去 後，便已不再需要它。」（He who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed on it.）

究竟人生的目的是甚麽？——這是千百年來，一直困擾着不少人的問題。思想家和心理學家佛洛伊德（Sigmund Freud）就直指，既然這麽多年來，仍沒有人可滿意地解答這問題，也許這其實就是一不容許有答案的問題。

「思想，在簡化成文字後，其實只是有如一個人在走過沙灘時留下的足印。毋疑，我們是可看到他走過的路徑，但在沿路上他究竟是看到了甚麽，我們是還得用上自己的眼睛。」（Thoughts, reduced to paper, are generally not more than the footprints of a man walking in the sand. It is true that we see the path he has taken, but to know what he saw on the way, we must use our own eyes.）

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http://www.master-insight.com/content/article/2275

「金錢不能為你帶來快樂，不過它至少可令你能舒適地過痛苦的日子。」 （Money cannot bring you happiness, but at least you can be miserable in comfort）

上帝似乎已把所有東西都給予了我，我旣有天才，又有顯赫的名字、高尚的社會地位、過人的鋒芒、智慧。我將藝術化成哲學，也將哲學化成藝術⋯⋯（The gods had given me almost everything. I had genies a distinguished name, high social position, brilliancy, intellectual daring, I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art ......）

金錢是人類快樂的抽象化身（Money is human happiness in the abstract）

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http://www.master-insight.com/content/article/2508

「終日追逐金錢的生活是人迫不得已地過的。財富顯然不是我們所真正追求的東西，蓋它的功用不過是用來換取其他東西罷了。」（"The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are looking for; for it is merely useful for the sake of something else"）

「隨着我對富人的了解不斷加深，我發覺只有一個方法可令他們的金錢真正用得物有所值：這就是去培養出一種品味，能將金錢用於一些地方，令這可為他們帶來恒久不 斷的滿足。」（As I study wealthy men, I can see but one way in which they can secure a real equivalent for money spent and that is to cultivate a taste for giving where the money may produce an effect which will be a lasting gratification.）

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http://www.master-insight.com/content/article/2524

「如果你想做漫畫家，那你便每天都畫漫畫吧。」（If you want to be a cartoonist, draw every day.）

「如果你真的能夠每天都畫出一輯漫畫，唯一的可能是你能將你所有曾有過的人生經驗和想法都寫進去。」（If you”re going to survive on a daily schedule, you survive only by being able to draw on every experience and thoughts that you’ve ever had.）

「為何音樂家要作曲，詩人要寫詩呢？因為若非如此，對他們而言，生命便會再沒有甚麽意義。這就是我在畫漫畫時的感覺。畫漫畫就是我的生命。」（Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? Because life would have no meaning for them if they didn’t. That’s how I feel about drawing cartoons. It’s my life.）

「我只會在這樣的情況下才會停止畫漫畫：就是當我的筆在紙張上縱橫馳騁時帶來的感覺及製造出來的聲音，再也不能為我帶來振奮的時候——但在今天，這感覺尤在， 而且程度不比當年我開始時為少。」（I would only do that if the feeling and sound of the pen gliding over the pages no longer excites me. It still does as much today as it did when I first started the strip.）

「漫畫家就是那些每天都其實在畫着同樣的東西，但又不會令人感覺他有所重覆的人。」（A cartoonist is someone who draws the same thing day after day without repeating himself …）

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http://www.master-insight.com/content/article/3206

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http://www.master-insight.com/content/article/3496