shining sake

[Tantin]

Как перерводится эта фраза? она стоит в начале прямой речи. цитата:
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. We are so much stronger than we imagine and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics

[upahill]

смысл в том, что он/она верил в эту идею только из за того как она звучит (очень коряво)

Пример из личного опыта: я поступал на факультет международного туризма и гостеприимства, т.к. название вызывало СТОЛЬКО живых картинок путешествующего меня по безкрайним просторам нашей планеты, что эх...

так вот, я поступал на этот факультет for its own shining sake.

PS. я могу ошибаться.)

[upahill]

Нет, тут смысл в другом. Он верил, ибо вера может творить чудеса (он был/или сейчас болен раком)
PS. опять же очень коряво. Давно не читал книг на русском...

[sascha]

for its own shining sake - просто так, не почему-то или для чего-то а просто, просто так

Quite simply, I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough.

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, "But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven." If so, I was going to reply, "You know what? You're right. Fine."

I believed, too, in the doctors and the medicine and the surgeries— I believed in that. I believed in them. A person like Dr. Einhorn, that's someone to believe in, I thought, a person with the mind to develop an experimental treatment 20 years ago that now could save my life. I believed in the hard currency of his intelligence and his research.

Beyond that, I had no idea where to draw the line between spiritual belief and science. But I knew this much: I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe— what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics.

To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery.

To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in the treatment, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing, I decided. It had to be.

[westfield_girl]

sascha +1