If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
— Voltaire  ·  Atheism

📚 名句词汇解析

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exist [ɪɡ'zɪst] 词频1 词根: sist
vi. 存在;生存;生活;继续存在;
💡 ex出+ist站立→站出来→活下来→存在，生存
"There exist many sources of energy both potential and kinetic."
存在着许多势能和动能的能源.
近义：be, live, subsist
necessary ['nɛsəsɛri] 词频1 词根: necessar
adj. 必要的;强制的;必然的;不可避免的; n. 必需品;
💡 necess必要 + ary 表示有...性质的， → a.必要的；必然的
"Vitamin D is necessary to aid the absorption of calcium from food."
从食物中吸取钙需靠维生素D的帮助。
近义：indispensable, inevitable, mandatory, needful, obligatory, obliged 反义：needless, pointless, profitless, purposeless, redundant, reiterative
invent [ɪn'vɛnt] 词频2 词根: 行走
vt. 发明，创造;虚构;
💡 in(upon)+vent(come)→发明；虚构
"We have to invent a new method for sneaking prisoners out without being noticed by the guards."
我们必须想出新的办法使囚犯们偷偷溜出去而不被看守发现.
近义：improvise, make, noodle, vamp, coin, adlib 反义：recopy, reduplicate, replicate, reproduce, trace, transcribe

📜 Voltaire 的更多名言

"Once the people begin to reason, all is lost."
"We're neither pure; nor wise; nor good; we do the best we know."
"There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer."
"There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable."
"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."
"I have lost the half of myself a€“ a soul for which mine was made."
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🏷 更多「Atheism」名言

"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
— Jules Renard
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
— Peter De Vries
"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays."
— Henny Youngman
"I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days."
— Lois McMaster Bujold
"If there were no God, there would be no Atheists."
— G. K. Chesterton
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
— Woody Allen
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