Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

  • -- Mortimer J. Adler 莫蒂默·杰尔姆·阿德勒

爱在于付出而不求回报;给予别人不欠别人的,别人也不欠你的。这就是为什么真爱从来就不是建立在公平交换的基础上的,就像功利或快乐的联想一样。

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At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

在普林斯顿,我从课堂上的成功中获得了极大的快乐。我知道我能完成这些事情,我意识到我的成功与我投入的工作成正比。

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

我是个功利主义者,所以我不认为反对说谎的规则是绝对的;它总是受制于一些凌驾于它之上的实用程序,这可能会阻止它的运行。

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

我们的国家并不是我们唯一应该效忠的国家。这也归功于正义和人类。

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

我们的心太自然地倾向于享乐,却太容易屈服于放荡。

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

物种形成的过程是随着基因交换的停止而完成的。

God gave me a talent to draw. I 'owed' it to him to develop the talent.

上帝给了我画画的天赋。我“亏欠”他培养了我的才能。

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

任何东西的价格都是你为它付出的生命的数量。