e***e 发帖数: 3872 | 1 ....
Now what we call "bourgeois," when regarded as an element always to be
found in human life, is nothing else than the search for a balance. It
is the striving after a mean between the countless extremes and
opposites that arise in human conduct. If we take any one of these
coupled opposites, such as piety and profligacy, the analogy is
immediately comprehensible. It is open to a man to give himself up
wholly to spiritual views, to seeking after God, to the ideal of
saintliness. On the other |
|