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罗素的人生追求
伯特兰·罗素
方舟子译
What I have Lived For
------Bertrand Russell
Three passions,simple but overwhelmingly
strong,have governed
my life:the longing for love,the search for knowledge,and
unbearable
pity for the suffering of mankind.These passions,like great
winds,have
blown me hither and thither,in a wayward course,over a deep ocean
of
anguish,reaching to the very verge of despair.
I have sought love,first,because it brings
ecstasy--ecstasy so
great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for
a
few hours of this joy.I have sought it,next,because it
relieves
loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering
consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold
unfathomable lifeless abyss.I have sought it,finally,because in
the
union of love I have seen,in a mystic miniature,the
prefiguring
vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.This
is
what I sought,and though it might seem too good for human
life,
this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.I have
wished to
understand the hearts of men.I have wished to know why the
stars
shine.And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by
which
number holds sway above the flux.A little of this,but not
much,I
have achieved.
Love and knowledge,so far as they were
possible,led upward
toward the heavens.But always pity brought me back to
earth.Echoes
of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.Children in
famine,victims
tortured by oppressors,helpless old people a hated burden to
their
sons,and the whole world of loneliness,poverty,and pain make
a
mockery of what human life should be.I long to alleviate the
evil,
but I can't ,and I too suffer.
This has been my life.I have found it worth
living,and would
gladly live itagain if the chance were offered me.
NOTE:This is the prologue of Russell's autobiography.