The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.

  • -- Erich Fromm 埃里希·弗洛姆

一个人能够而且必须为自己设定的精神任务不是感到安全,而是能够容忍不安全。

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When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

当我们原谅罪恶时,我们不会原谅它,我们不会容忍它,我们不会扼杀它。我们直面邪恶,不管它是什么,让它的恐怖震撼、震撼、激怒我们,只有这样我们才会原谅它。

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

我从不缺乏安全感,因为我知道这是一种浪费。我知道有一个解决不安全感的办法。我不会被没有解决方案的问题所困扰。而不安全感有很多选择。

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.

那个一生都致力于文书工作的人失去了主动权。他在处理那些引起他注意的事情,而他自己却什么也没有注意到。

We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse.

我们容忍人类的形状,如果我们在马身上看到它们,我们会感到恐惧。

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

只有当我们都安全行事时,我们才会创造一个极度不安全的世界。

Man has no greater enemy than himself.

人最大的敌人莫过于自己。