The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inward world.

现代性的本质是心理主义，即根据我们内心生活的反应来体验和解释世界，确实将其视为一个内在的世界。

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inner world, the dissolution of fixed contents in the fluid element of the soul, from which all that is substantive is filtered and whose forms are merely forms of motion.

现代性的本质是心理主义，即根据我们内心生活的反应来体验和解释世界，确实作为一个内心世界，将固定内容溶解在灵魂的流动元素中，从中过滤出所有实质性的东西，其形式仅仅是运动的形式。

The problem of the modern individual is not that he has too little choice, but that he has too much.

现代个人的问题不是选择太少，而是选择太多。

The individual has to fashion himself out of the material given by his culture.

个人必须从他的文化提供的材料中塑造自己。

The development of modern culture is characterized by the predominance of what one might call the objective spirit over the subjective spirit.

现代文化的发展特点是一个人可能称之为客观精神对主观精神的支配。

The essence of modernity is psychologism, the experiencing and interpretation of the world in terms of the reactions of our inner life and indeed as an inwardness.

现代性的本质是心理主义，即根据我们内心生活的反应来体验和解释世界，确实作为一种内在性。