「So, I'm going to end it there. But what I really want to stress is: by all means, success, yes. But let's accept the strangeness of some of our ideas. Let's probe away at our notions of success. Let's make sure our ideas of success are truly our own.」- 阿兰·德波顿经典语录

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So, I'm going to end it there. But what I really want to stress is: by all means, success, yes. But let's accept the strangeness of some of our ideas. Let's probe away at our notions of success. Let's make sure our ideas of success are truly our own.

阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
💡 解读： 我必须在这里做个总结，但我真正想说的是，成功是必要的，但请接受自己怪异的想法，朝着自己对成功的定义出发，确定我们对成功的定义都是出于自己的真心。
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Because thought implies judgement, and because we are all paranoid enough to take judgement to be negative, it is constitutionally suspect in the bedroom.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
思索寓含着判断，我们都那么偏执，以至会做出否定的判断，所以在卧室时，我们总是心存疑虑。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
思索的背信弃义在于它的幽默独处——”如果有什么事你不能对我诉说，“心上人说。”有什么事情你需要独立思考，那么你还把我放在心上吗?“
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
我们生活在动荡的环境当中，我们必须接受这一现实作为最基本的出发点。我们决不能以受伤的意外态度来应对不幸，因为不幸原本是生活契约的基本组成部分。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
普鲁斯特说：“事实上，每个读者只能读到已然存在于他内心的东西。书籍只不过是一种光学仪器，作者将其提供给读者，以便于他发现如果没有这本书的帮助他就发现不了的东西。”
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
我们的指责实际上承载着一个复杂的下文：我恨你，因为我爱你。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
沉默是致命的指责。 沉默和笨拙也许可以得到谅解，正可以作为心怀仰慕的证据。一个人完全可以收放自如地吸引自己毫不在意的人，而最笨拙的人则可被认为是最真诚的，拙于言辞反而可以证明其真情实意。语言在爱情面前无法自制，错误百出。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
查阅新闻就像把一枚海贝贴在耳边，任由全人类的咆哮将自己淹没。 借由那些更为沈重和骇人的事件，我们得以将自己从琐事中抽离，让更大的命题盖过我们只是聚焦于自身的忧虑和疑惑。 一场饥荒，一座洪水淹没的小镇，一个在逃的连环杀手，一届下台的政府，某经济学家对明年救济人口的预测--这样的外界骚动也许正是我们所需要的，好以此换取内心的平静。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
当一个人的行为正确而仍然遭遇祸事，就惑然不解，无法把这事纳入公正的框架中。世界看来很荒唐。于是这个人就会在两种可能中徘徊：或觉得自己终归还是坏人，所以才受到惩罚；或觉得自己实在不坏，因此一定是对公正的管理发生了灾难性的失误，自己是它的牺牲品。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
爱情是一种馈赠，而馈赠的因由不为我们所知，或不应为我们所知。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
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但是在这里，真正属于我的世界只有脚下的小路那么宽。我一步也不会离开这条路。我从不曾需要多么宽阔的通道，能侧身而过就足够了。像鸟在天空侧身飞翔，鱼在大海里侧身遨游，我从来不曾渴望过全部的世界。我只是经过这个世界，去向的一个小小的所在。我只依赖熟知的事物而生活，我心有牵挂，不想迷路，不想回不了家。我在山野里，游荡在节制之中。但已经感到足够的自由。
李娟 李娟
但愿同入梦。
琼瑶 琼瑶
悲伤就是知识
拜伦 拜伦
表面看起来糟糕的事，本质上却往往并非如此。
塞涅卡 塞涅卡
我绝不坚信这个时代没有放之四海而皆准的正义和良善的价值观，它们不仅仅有，而且不是朝令夕改流动无常的，它们是稳定而永恒的。
亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴 亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴
我们根本没想到要怀疑或轻视“历史的启示”；历史就是我们的一切。
恩格斯 恩格斯
奇花与丽日争妍，翠竹共青天斗碧。
吴承恩 吴承恩
大家礼义教子弟，小家凶恶训儿郎。
周希陶 周希陶
真理就是自由人的祖国。真理不存在于丑化了的现实里。生命的第一个行动就是创造的行动。在争论中是不分高贵卑鄙，也不管称号姓氏的，重要的只是真理，在它面前人人平等。
罗曼·罗兰 罗曼·罗兰
人人为我，我为人人。
列宁 列宁
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The problem is, if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there. I nother words, your position in life comes to seem not accidental, but merited and deserved. And that makes failure seem much more crushing.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" -- literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
Nowadays, particularly in the United States, if you meet someone at the bottom of society, they may unkindly be described as a "loser." There's a real difference between an unfortunate and a loser, and that shows 400 years of evolution in society and our belief in who is responsible for our lives. It's no longer the gods, it's us. We're in the driving seat.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
Is there any relief from some of thesepressures that I've been outlining? I think there is. I just want to turn to afew of them. Let's take meritocracy. This idea that everybody deserves to getwhere they get to, I think it's a crazy idea, completely crazy. I will support any politician of Left and Right, with any halfway-decent meritocratic idea; I am a meritocrat in that sense. But I think it's insane to believe that we will ever make a society that is genuinely meritocratic; it's an impossible dream.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
In other words, hold your horses when you're coming to judge people. You don't necessarily know what someone's truevalue is. That is an unknown part of them, and we shouldn't behave as though it is known. There is another source of solace and comfort for all this. When we think about failing in life, when we think about failure, one of the reasons why we fear failing is not just a loss of income, a loss of status. What we fear is the judgment and ridicule of others. And it exists.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
In a way, if you like, at one end of the spectrum of sympathy, you've got the tabloid newspaper. At the other end of the spectrum, you've got tragedy and tragic art. And I suppose I'm arguing that we should learn a little bit about what's happening in tragic art. It would be insane to call Hamlet a loser. He is not a loser, though he has lost. And I think that is the message of tragedy to us, and why it's so very, very important, I think.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
Not for the sake of our health, though it's often presented that way, but because it's an escape from the human anthill. It's an escape from our own competition, and our own dramas. And that's why ween joy looking at glaciers and oceans, and contemplating the Earth from outside its perimeters, etc. We like to feel in contact with something that is non-human, and that is so deeply important to us.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
What I think I've been talking about really is success and failure. And one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. If I said that there's somebody behind the screen who's very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind. You'd think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field. My own theory of success -- I'm somebody who's very interested in success, I really want to be successful, always thinking, how can I be more successful? But as I get older, I'm also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
And we also suck in messages from everything from the television, to advertising, to marketing, etc. These are hugely powerful forces that define what we want and how we view ourselves. When we're told that banking is a very respectable profession, a lot of us want to go into banking. When banking is no longer so respectable, we lose interest in banking. We are highly open to suggestion.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
拍照可以稍稍满足那种拥有的渴望，这种渴望是被一个地方的美丽所激起的；我们对将要失去一幅珍贵的图景的焦虑，会随着快门的每一次闪动而逐渐消失。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
读一本严肃的书不仅要花时间，还要留出感情空间，使人先产生种种联想、以后再从种种担忧中得到解脱。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
但是美是短暂的，它常常在那些我们无缘再见之地被发现，或者是在一定季节、光线及天气情况下才能形成的相逢之景。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
从某种角度而言，生活就是由突发事件组成，但是表面上我们还必须努力维持风平浪静。任内心焦虑如何扰动，我们必须以微笑示人。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
智慧是教不出来的，只有我们通过自身的经历去发现，没有人可以分担，任何人也不能代劳。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
幽默不仅是攻击地位显赫之人的有效工具，而且能够帮助我们理解并缓解我们自己的身份焦虑。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
城市人毫无主见，只限于在街边或饭桌上道听途说、人云亦云。虽然他们生活舒适，却从未放弃追逐新鲜事物，即使他们什么都不缺、而幸福也根本与他们想要追逐的东西无关。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
一个人从旅行中得到多少不在于他去过多少美丽的地方，而在于他在一个地方发现了多少美丽的故事。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
叙述者和我们所有人一样，都是习惯的奴隶，对任何事物，总是容易一经熟悉即不再当回事儿。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
我在乎你，所以我将使你心烦意乱；我敬重心中那个完美的你，因此我将伤害凡尘中的真实的你。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
我们只对新鲜事儿感兴趣，只有突然闯入我们意识、令我们大吃一惊的陡然变调才会令我们动容。一旦习惯取代了新奇，我们便掉头不顾。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
我们所期待的远超出我们祖先们的想象，但我们付出的代价则是永远都挥之不去的焦虑——我们永远都不能安于现状，永远都有尚未企及的梦想。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
我的目标并不是把一名工匠调教为一名艺术家，而是使他成为一名更加快乐的木匠。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
人类不快乐的唯一原因是他不知道如何安静地呆在自己的房间里。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
让理智良心来决定我们的价值，并不是无条件地期待他人的爱。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
宗教并不指望我们单靠自己来处理全部的情感问题，它们在这一点上非常明智。宗教知道，当人们不得不承认自己无法克制绝望、贪欲、妒忌、自大等情绪时，该是多么的迷茫和蒙羞。宗教也理解到有些时候我们难以启口，比如如何去告诉无助的母亲我们对她极其不满，如何去告诉自己的孩子我们羡慕乃至嫉妒他，如何去告诉未来的配偶结婚这个想法既让人欣喜又让人惊恐。因此，宗教提供了特殊的节庆日子，使我们心中的烦恼可以借助这些日子而得到化解。宗教也提供了诗行让我们吟诵，提供了歌词让我么齐唱，引领大家走过心灵世界暗流涌动的险恶地带。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
自尊取决于我们的现状与我们所认为的潜力的比例。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
自我满足感并非要求我们在任何一个努力的领域都很成功。我们通常并不会因为做事失败而深感耻辱，只有当我们把自豪感和价值感寄托在特定的成就上，却没有实现目标的时候才感到耻辱。我们的目标决定我们定义何者为成功、何者为失败。
阿兰·德波顿 阿兰·德波顿
英国作家
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