Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

  • -- Erich Fromm 埃里希·弗洛姆

考虑到他们在人格市场上的价值,爱情往往只是两个人之间的一种有利的交流,他们能得到他们所能期望的最多的东西。

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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.

地中海与北方或大西洋与中欧之间的交往从来不纯粹是经济或政治的;它还意味着知识和思想的交流以及社会制度、艺术和文学形式的影响。

A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

一个把“怀旧”变成文化交流中有销路的商品的社会,很快否定了过去的生活在任何重要方面都比今天的生活更好的说法。

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

幸运的人往往有很好的开始,也有很悲惨的结局。重要的不是当你到达时被鼓掌——因为这很常见——而是当你离开时被想念。

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

我想,如果我先做了一个出色的研究,我今天可能还是个老头子,但我希望不是。人们之所以成为教师,是因为他们在生活中没有能力做任何其他事情。

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

不要等着别人为你高兴。你得到的任何幸福都要靠你自己去创造。

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

如果一个人不知道要驶向哪个港口,那就没有顺风。