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1、 Man is Here for the Sake of Other Men.人是为了别人而活着 by Albert Einstein 阿尔伯特爱因斯坦 Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is
2、 here for the sake of other menabove all for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in o
3、rder to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men. To ponder interminably over the reason for ones own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective po
4、int of view, to be sheer folly. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgement. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to
5、me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be suffucient only for a herd of cattle. 人类在这个世界上的境况真是惊奇。我们每个人都是来做一次短暂的访问，不知道自己为何而来，然而有时候却好像推想出一种目的。 但是从日常生活的观点来看，有一件事情我们是确定知道的，那就是人在这个世界上是为了别人而活着尤其为了那些由于怜悯之感而使我们同他们的命运联系起来的人们。每天都有许多次，我觉察到自己的肉体生活和精神生活是如何建立在别人包括生者和死者的劳动之上，以及自己必需如何奋勉努力，从而使我从别人那里取得多少东西，我也可以把同等数量的东西赐予别人，以此作为报答。我时常怀着一种愁闷的心情，觉得自己从别人的工作中承袭太多，因而心里惴惴担心。 没完没了地深思着自己生存的理由或人生的意义，从客观的观点来看，我觉得是近乎愚蠢的行为。可是，每个人都有一些抱负作为他的理想和推断的指南针。常常在我的眼前闪烁发光，并使我布满了欢乐的抱负的，就是真、善、美。我从来没有以追求舒适和幸福作为生活的目标，建立在这个根底上的一套伦理观念，只能满意一群牲畜的需要。
