I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense. Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity. Schopenhauers saying, A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants, has been a very real inspiration to me since my youth; it has been a continual consolation in the face of lifes hardships, my own and others, and an unfailing wellspring of tolerance. This realization mercifully mitigates the easily paralyzing sense of responsibility and prevents us from taking ourselves and other people all too seriously; it is conducive to a view of life which, in particular, gives humor its due.
我完全不相信哲学意义上的人的自由。每个人的行为不仅受外在力量的约束,还要与内在需求协调一致。叔本华说:人可以任意而为,却不能心想事成。这句话从我年轻时起就一直深深地启发着我。在面对生活的艰辛时无论是我自己还是他人的艰辛,这句话总能不断地给我安慰,成为永不枯竭的忍耐的源泉。这一认识能够仁慈地缓和那份令人几欲崩溃的责任感,并防止我们太把自己或者他人当回事,还有助于形成一种尤其幽默的人生观。
To inquire after the meaning or object of ones own existence or that of all creatures has always seemed to me absurd from an objective point of view. And yet everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves this ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to me empty. The trite objects of human efforts possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
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