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詹姆斯·艾伦:思考的人·摘录 13

詹姆斯·艾伦《思考的人》· As a Man Thinketh · 健康

A man does not come to the almshouse or the jail by the tyranny of fate or circumstance, but by the pathway of grovelling thoughts and base desires. Nor does a pure-minded man fall suddenly into crime by stress of any mere external force; the criminal thought had long been secretly fostered in the heart, and the hour of opportunity revealed its gathered power. Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself No such conditions can exist as descending into vice and its attendant sufferings apart from vicious inclinations, or ascending into virtue and its pure happiness without the continued cultivation of virtuous aspirations; and man, therefore, as the lord and master of thought, is the maker of himself the shaper and author of environment. Even at birth the soul comes to its own and through every step of its earthly pilgrimage it attracts those combinations of conditions which reveal itself, which are the reflections of its own purity and, impurity, its strength and weakness.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4507
定位:Excerpt 13 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

人不会因为命运或环境太坏就突然进救济院或监狱,而是一步步顺着卑劣念头和低级欲望走过去的。一个心思干净的人也不会被外部压力一下子逼成罪犯;犯罪的念头早就在心里悄悄养着,机会一来就显出它攒下的力量。环境不制造人,只是把人自己照出来。没有恶念却掉进恶果,或没有持续培养善念却升到善果,都不可能。所以人是思想的主人,也是自己的制造者和环境的塑造者。从出生起,灵魂就在每一步吸引那些能照出自己本来面目的条件。

上下文

同上书,讨论环境与思想的关系。作者反对把人生完全归咎于外部条件。

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今日一问

你最近一次把问题全推给环境,是什么时候?

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