罗素快乐智慧书
出版社:国际广播1
出版日期:2006-4
ISBN:9787507826425
作者:伯特兰·罗素
页数:448页
书籍目录
我为什么活着？ What I Have Lived for?
一、论不幸的根源
01.是什么使人不快乐? WhatMakes People Unhappy?
02.论拜伦式的忧郁 Byronic Unhappiness
03.论竞争 Competition
04.论无聊与激动 Boredom and Excitement
05.论疲劳 Fatigue
06.论嫉妒 Envy
07.论罪孽感 TheSenseofSin
08.论受迫害妄想症 Persecution Mania
09.论舆论恐惧症 Fear of Public Opinion
二、论快乐的途径
10.快乐依旧可能吗? Is Happiness Still Possible?
11.论热情 Zest
12.论惜爰 Affection
13.论家庭The Family
14.论工作 Work
15.论闲情逸致 Impersonal Interests
16.论努力和放弃 Effort and Resignation
17.论快乐人 The Happy Man
三、论快乐的智慧
18.论本能 On Instinct
19.论性格教育 On Education Of Character
20.论性禁忌 On Sexual Taboos
21.论婚姻 On Marriage
22.论知识与智慧 Knowledge end Wisdom
23.论如何避免愚蠢的见解 On How To Avoid Foolish Opinions
24.论如何安度晚年 On How To Grow Old
25.论美好人生 The Good Life
26.论斜学和美好的生活 On Science And Good Life
附录：罗素年表
作者简介
《罗素快乐智慧书》(英汉对照)第一、二部分，译自罗素的《征服幸福》(The conquest Of Happiness)，第三部分选译自他的《婚姻与道德》、《教育和社会秩序》、《我的信仰》等。全书英汉对照，保证高中英语水平的读者就能读懂。
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(What Makes People Unhappy) And every external interest inspires some activity which, so long as the interest remains alive, is a complete preventive of ennui.External discipline is the only road to happiness for those unfortunates whose self-absorptions is too profound to be cured in any other way.When vanity is carried to this height, there is no genuine interest in any other person, and therefore no real satisfaction to be obtained from love.The man who is only interested in himself is not admirable, and is not felt to be so. Consequently the man whose sole concern with the world is that it shall admire him is not likely to achieve his object.Vanity, when it passes beyond a point, kills pleasure in every activity for its own sake, and thus leads inevitably to listlessness and boredom. Often its sore source is diffidence, and its cure lies in the growth of self-respect.(Byronic Unhappiness)The feeling (vanity) is one born of a too easy satisfaction of natural needs.(Competition)What people mean, therefore, by the struggle for life is really the struggle for success. What people fear when they engage in the struggle is not that they will fail to get their breakfast next morning, but that they will fail to outshine their neighbours.So long as he not only desires success, but is wholeheartedly persuaded that it is a man's duty to pursue success, and that a man who does not do so is a poor creature, so long his life will remain too concentrated and anxious to be happy.For my part, the thing that I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.What I do maintain is that success can only be one ingredient in happiness, and is too dearly purchased if all the other ingredients have been sacrificed to obtain it.Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.(Bordom and Excitement)The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches.All the best novels contain boring passages. A novel which sparkles from the first page to the last is pretty sure not to be a great book. Nor have the lives of great men been exciting except at a few great moments.Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that would look exciting to the outward eye.Love is an experience in which our whole being is renewed and refreshed as is that of plants by rain after drought. In sex intercourse without love there is nothing of this. When the momentary pleasure is ended, there is fatigue, disgust, and a sense that life is hollow, Love is part of the life of Earth; sex without love is not.A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.(Fatigue)Purely physical fatigue, provided it is not excessive, tends if anything to be a cause of happiness; it leads to sound sleep and a good appetite, and give zest to the pleasures that are possible on holidays.The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much. Even great sorrows can be survived; troubles which seem as if they must put an end to happiness for life fade with the elapse of time until it becomes almost impossible to remember their poignancy.The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.The important kind of fatigue is always emotional in modern life; purely intellectual fatigue, like purely muscular fatigue, produces its own remedy in sleep.(Envy)Whoever wishes to increase human happiness must wish to increase admiration and to diminish envy.Merely to realize the causes of one's own envious feelings is to take a long step towards curing them. The habit of thinking in terms of comparisons is a fatal one. When anything pleasant occurs it should be enjoyed to the full, without stopping to think that it is not so pleasant as something else that may possibly be happening to someone else.For all this the proper cure is mental discipline, the habit of not thinking profitless thoughts. After all, what is more enviable than happiness? And if I can cure myself of envy I can acquire happiness and become enviable.If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon. But Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed. You cannot, therefore, get away from envy by means of success alone, for there will always be in history or legend some person even more successful than you are.To find the right road out of this despair civilized man must enlarge his heart as he has enlarged his mind. He must learn to transcend self, and in so doing to acquire the freedom of the Universe.(The Sense of Sin)In a rational ethic it will be held laudable to give pleasure to anyone, even to oneself, provided there is no counterbalancing pain to oneself or to others. The ideally virtuous man, if we had got rid of asceticism, would be the man who permits the enjoyment of all good things whenever there is no evil consequence to outweigh the enjoyment.It is in the moments when the mind is most active and fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys are experienced. This, indeed, is one of the best touchstones of happiness.(Persecution Mania)Very few people can resist saying malicious things about their acquaintances, and even on occasion about their friends; yet when people hear that anything has been said against themselves, they are filled with indignant amazement. It has apparently never occurred to them that, just as they gossip about everyone else, so everyone else gossips about them.It does not occur to us that we cannot expect others to think better of us than we think of them and the reason this does not occur to us is that our own merits are great and obvious, whereas those of others, if they exist at all, are only visible to a very charitable eye.Nobody should expect to be perfect, or be unduly troubled by the fact that he is not.These illustrations suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventive of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.Conventional morality inculcates a degree of altruism of which human nature is scarcely capable, and those who pride themselves upon their virtue often imagine that they attain this unattainable ideal.To recognize that your merit is not so great as you had hoped may be more painful for a moment, but it is a pain which has an end, beyond which a happy life again becomes possible.(Fear of Public Opinion)In a good many cases unnecessary timidity makes the trouble worse than it need be. Public opinion is always more tyrannical towards those who obviously fear it than towards those who feel indifferent to it. A dog will bark more loudly and bite more readily when people are afraid of him than when they treat him with contempt, and the human herd has something of this same characteristic. If you show that you are afraid of them, you give promise of good hunting, whereas if you show indifference, they begin to doubt their own power and therefore tend to let you alone.To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is, of course, a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it. And to some degree these characteristics exist in almost every environment.(Is Happiness Still Possible)This is perhaps the chief reason why a not excessive estimate of one's own powers is a source of happiness. The man who underestimates himself is perpetually being surprised by success, whereas the man who overestimates himself is just as often surprised by failure. The former kind of surprise is pleasant, the latter unpleasant.It is not only eminent scientists who can derive pleasure through work, nor is it only leading statesmen who can derive pleasure through advocacy of a cause. The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialized skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.A friendly interest in persons is a form of affectionateness, but not the form which is grasping and possessive and seeking always an emphatic response. This latter form is very frequently a source of unhappiness.A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.The secret of happiness is this: let your interest be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.(Zest)The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has, and the less he is at the mercy of fate, since if he loses one thing he can fall back upon another. Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.For women as for men zest is the secret of happiness and well-being.(Affection)One of the chief causes of lack of zest is the feeling that one is unloved, whereas conversely the feeling of being loved promotes zest more than anything else does.Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. The man, therefore, who endeavours to purchase affection by benevolent actions becomes disillusioned by experience of human ingratitude.If you are walking over a chasm on a narrow plank, you are much more likely to fall if you feel fear than if you do not. And the same thing applies to the conduct of life.Fear for others is only a shade better than fear for ourselves. Moreover it is often a camouflage for possessiveness.The best type of affection is reciprocally life-giving; each receives affection with joy and gives it without effort, and each finds the whole world more interesting in consequence of the existence of this reciprocal happiness.(The Family)The value of parental affection to children lies largely in the fact that it is more reliable than any other affection. One's friends like one for one's merits, one's lovers for one's charms; if the merits or the charms diminish, friends and lovers may vanish. But it is in times of misfortune that parents are most to be relied upon, in illness, and even in disgrace if the parents are of the right sort.(Work)Work, therefore, is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days.(Impersonal Interests)One of the sources of unhappiness, fatigue, and nervous strain is inability to be interested in anything that is not of practical importance in one's own life.To ignore our opportunities for knowledge, imperfect as they are, is like going to the theatre and not listening to the play. The world is full of things that are tragic or comic, heroic or bizarre or surprising, and those who fail to be interested in the spectacle that it offers are forgoing one of the privileges that life has to offer.It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.You will have, beyond your immediate activities, purposes that are distant and slowly unfolding, in which you are not an isolated individual but one of the great army of those who have led mankind towards a civilized existence. If you have attained to this outlook, a certain deep happiness will never leave you, whatever your personal fate may be. Life will become a communion with the great of all ages, and personal death no more than a negligible incident.Grief is unavoidable and must be expected, but everything that can be done should be done to minimize it.To bear misfortune well when it comes, it is wise to have cultivated in happier times a certain width of interests, so that the mind may find prepared for it some undisturbed place suggesting other associations and other emotions than those which are making the present difficult to bear.A man of adequate vitality and zest will surmount all misfortunes by the emergence after each blow of an interest in life and the world which cannot be narrowed down so much as to make one loos fatal.All our affections are at the mercy of death, which may strike down those whom we love at any moment. It is therefore necessary that our lives should not have that narrow intensity which puts the whole meaning and purpose of our life at the mercy of accident.(The Happy Man) It is not the nature of most men to be happy in a prison, and the passions which shut us up in ourselves constitute one of the worst kinds of prisons. What then can a man do who is unhappy because he is encased in self? So long as he continues to think about the causes of his unhappiness, he continues to be self-centered and therefore does not get outside the vicious circles; if he is to get outside of it, it must be by genuine interests, not by simulated interests adopted merely as a medicine.Teach yourself to feel that life would still be worth living even if you were not, as of course you are, immeasurably superior to all your friends in virtue and in intelligence.Undoubtedly we should desire the happiness of those whom we love, but not as an alternative to our own.(On Instinct)The use of self-control is like the use of brakes on a train. It is useful when you find yourself going in the wrong direction, but merely harmful when the direction is right.Self-control will be applied more to abstaining from interference with the freedom of others than to restraining one's own freedom.(On Education of Character)Experience of children shows that it is possible to operate upon feeling, and not only upon outward behaviour, by giving children an environment in which desirable emotions shall become common and undesirable emotions rare.(On Sexual Taboos)A well-brought-up girl, if her sexual impulses are strong, will be unable to distinguish, when she is courted, between a serious congeniality with a man and a mere sex attraction. She may easily marry the first man who awakens her sexually, and find out too late that when her sexual hunger is satisfied she has no longer anything in common with him.In all these ways, from childhood through adolescence and youth, and on into marriage, the older morality has been allowed to poison love, filling it with gloom, fear, mutual misunderstanding, remorse, and nervous strain, separating into two regions the bodily impulse of sex and the spiritual impulse of ideal love, making the one beastly and the other sterile.The love of man and woman at its best is free and fearless, compounded of body and mind in equal proportions; not dreading to idealize because there is a physical basis, not dreading the physical basis lest it should interfere with the idealization. Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven. But love cannot grow and flourish while it is hedged about with taboos and superstitious terrors, with words of reprobation and silence of horror.To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.(Knowledge and Wisdom)Hatred of evil is itself a kind of bondage to evil. The way out is through understanding, not through hate. I am not advocating non-resistance. But I am saying that resistance, if it is to be effective in preventing the spread of evil, should be combined with the greatest degree of understanding and the smallest degree of force that is competence with the survival of the good things that we wish to preserve.(On How to Avoid Foolish Opinions)The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. 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每当你烦闷的时候··读读他就会冷静很多，虽然有些事或许过于理智让自己办不到，但是，这其中的智慧会让人豁然开朗···
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非常值得读的书 -
这本书对我的价值观行程曾起到过决定性的作用。它的理性的，是经过一个世界大师深思熟虑后对很多我们每一个人都在寻找答案的问题的回答。没人能保证它的绝对正确性，但绝对是具有巨大启发意义的。 -
可以一辈子读下去的书 -
罗素当然不会差的咯，况且不zb。这个荷兰么。。。不知道是谁
md花一本钱买半本书~ -
之前在余光中一本翻译书上读过罗素的文字，觉得还是较为平实易懂，没想到读了原文还是很受挫。此版英文有注释，但译文相较之傅雷译本则逊色不少。 -
突然翻出来。感觉好感动。。。 -
别笑，学校图书馆只能借到这么个版本。。。 -
快乐智慧书？ -
唯一一本，送人了，买不到了 -
这本书解决了我的许多人生中的重大困惑。罗素的观点都充满智慧，他的大多数见解我都赞同。
罗素是伟大的作家，获得了若贝尔文学奖；他同时还是伟大的数学家（罗素悖论），政治家，哲学家，博学多才，人间罕见。
书中论述了许多的困扰人们的心理问题的产生原因和解决办法：嫉妒，罪孽感，受迫害妄想症，等等。他的论述比起心理学专注要浅显简明得多，能使更多人读懂并从中受益。他认为，在多数情况下，人们的心理问题是源于童年时期家庭环境和成长经历，而不是人天生注定的缺陷。
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具有朴实的智慧。罗素一直主张爱和知识，以及培养广泛的兴趣爱好来平衡心理。最让我感动的是他的诚实态度，在性禁忌这个篇章中，他主张要平等的参与儿童的谈话，要诚实的告知他们性为何物，以及性压抑带来的严重后果。有些时候表面上禁忌的东西，都会转为潜在的。还有生命就像一条小溪，越流越奔腾，最后生命和人水乳交融。 -
The Conquest of Happiness一书和其它一些关于人生智慧文章的集合。封面很俗不可耐，但内容清澈人心。 -
编辑没校对过吧 那么多印刷和排版错误 还有 翻译很烂 旁边的单词解释还不错 就是有些注释不对 -
可惜翻译得没感觉。 -
阅读罗素的书，确实如爱因斯坦所说是人生中最美好的时光之一，客观平静的看待一切。 -
呕心啊搞成这样 -
你是因为自己感到有表达某种想法或感情的冲动才写作的，还是因为对掌声的渴望所驱使？——罗素。 -
从逻辑上，解析快乐和不幸，而不是口头上胡吹海侃
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可能是翻译版本不好，没有砸看懂也 -
1011 - 只有罗素这样的哲学家才能写出这种书
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笔记已做 -
我大学时期看过印象最深刻的书，除圣经以外。可以解答人生的很多困惑。 -
罗素先生是智慧的。中文翻译稍生硬，学术官腔了点 -
说真的啊，有点像余秋雨，不过他给了解决的方法，还很真诚有逻辑，不得不佩服。。。。 -
理性的西方圣光倾斜在我的身上，因为我读了这本书。虽然是剪辑，不过句句精美，不失风范，给我无尽启示。 -
也算是社科类大作，看得我心潮澎湃，不过我缺的不是这个，书中见解颇得我心，好书，没有成功学那样的俗气和势力 -
培根之后来罗素，实在是个挑战 -
分析的很好