Quotes

Flowers for Algernon¶

“纪尼安小姐如果你有机会读到这个请不要为我难过。我很感机我就像你说的得到生命中的弟二次机会。因为我学到很多我以前甚至不知到这世界上真的存在的事情。我很高兴能够看到这些即使只是很短的时间。我很高兴我发现了所有关于我的家人和我的事。好像在我想起他们并且看过他们之前我并没有家人似的但现在我知到我有家人而且我和大家一样也是一个人。“

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind’s eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.” (Plato, The Republic)

有些常识的人都会记得，眼睛的困惑有两种，也来自两种起因，不是因为走出光明，就是因为走进光明所致，不论是人体的眼睛或心灵的眼睛，都是如此。记得这件事的人，当他们看到别人迷茫、虛弱的眼神，他们不会任意嘲笑，而会先询问这个人的灵魂是否刚从更明亮的生命走出来，因为不适应黑暗而无法看清周遭；或是他刚从黑暗走入光明，因为过多的光芒而目眩。他会认为其中一个人的情况与心境是快乐的，并对另一个人产生怜悯。或是，他可能想嘲笑从幽冥走进光明的灵魂，但这总比嘲笑从光明世界回到黑暗洞穴的人更有道理。(上译)

Dead Poets Society¶

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to “glorify God and enjoy him forever.”

我到林中去，因为我希望谨慎地生活，只面对生活的基本事实，看看我是否学得到生活要教育我的东西，免得到了临死的时候，才发现我根本就没有生活过。我不希望度过非生活的生活，生活是那样的可爱；我却也不愿意去修行过隐逸的生活，除非是万不得已。我要生活得深深地把生命的精髓都吸到，要生活得稳稳当当，生活得斯巴达式的，以便根除一切非生活的东西，划出一块刈割的面积来，细细地刈割或修剪，把生活压缩到一个角隅里去，把它缩小到最低的条件中，如果它被证明是卑微的，那么就把那真正的卑微全部认识到，并把它的卑微之处公布于世界；或者，如果它是崇高的，就用切身的经历来体会它，在我下一次远游时，也可以作出一个真实的报道。因为，我看，大多数人还确定不了他们的生活是属于魔鬼的，还是属于上帝的呢，然而又多少有点轻率地下了判断，认为人生的主要目标是“归荣耀于神，并永远从神那里得到喜悦”。（徐迟译）

我们内心的冲突¶

有意识地去体验痛苦，虽然令人痛苦，却可以成为一项非常宝贵的资本。我们越去面对冲突，越去寻求自己的解决途径，我们的内心就越自由，越能得到更多的力量。唯有我们自愿去接受正面冲击时，才可能接近我们的理想，做自己人生的船长。而那种由内心迟钝而带来的，形是而实非的所谓安宁，根本不值得羡慕，它会使我们变弱，使我们轻易沦为太多影响的牺牲品。(卡尔·霍尼)