有关价值的20句名人名言哲理格言警句语录

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

我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话，他说“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。用现在的口吻说，看一个人的名片来决定你是否要和他交谈是罪。对圣奥古斯丁来说，人的价值不在他的社会地位，只有神可以决定一个人的价值，他将在天使围绕、小号奏鸣，天空破开的世界末日给于最后审判，如果你是像我一样的世俗论者，这想法太疯狂了，但这想法有它的价值。

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

对那些来访牛津大学的外国友人，我有一个坏消息，这里的人都很势利。有时候，英国以外的人会想象，势利是英国人特有的个性，来自那些乡间别墅和头衔爵位。坏消息是，并不只是这样，势利是一个全球性的问题，我们是个全球性的组织，这是个全球性的问题，它确实存在。势利是什么？，势利是以一小部分的你，来判别你的全部价值，那就是势利。

In a way, I've got some bad news, particularly to anybody who's come to Oxford from abroad. There's a real problem with snobbery, because sometimes people from outside the U.K. imagine that snobbery is a distinctively U.K. phenomenon, fixated on country houses and titles. The bad news is that's not true. Snobbery is a global phenomenon; we area global organization, this is a global phenomenon. What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you, and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

阿兰·德波顿

因为我们得到的总是不及我们未得到的，因为请我们吃饭的人总是不及不肯请我们的。要是我们仅因为自己得不到，就对意下未足的一切抱怨个不停，我们的价值判断一定会出问题。

阿兰·德波顿

被他人注意、被他人关怀，得到他人的同情、赞美和支持，这就是我们想要从一切行为中得到的价值。富有的人忘情于财富，是因为财富能够自然而然地为他吸引世界的目光。穷人则完全相反，他们以贫穷为耻。他们感觉到自己生活在世界的目光之外。一旦感到自己被世界所忽略，人类天性中最强烈的欲望将必然难以得到满足。穷人进出家门都不为人所注意，即使在闹市，他也会像独处在家一样默默无闻。而名流显贵们则不然，他们一直为世界所瞩目。所有的人都渴望能够一睹尊颜。他们的行为成为公众关心的对象。他们的片言只语、举手投足都不会被人忽略。