The Architecture of Happiness (1)

  • 第152页 Ideals
    Owning such an object may help us realize our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub o...

Status Anxiety (5)

  • 第118页
    "We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire an adequate knowledge of the superficial and futile nature of their thoughts, of the narrowness of...
  • 第113页
    "[One's decency] does not depend on the testimony of someone else."
  • 第91页
    Because most businesses are shaped like pyramids, with a wide base of employees giving way to a narrow tip of managers, the question of who will be promoted, and who left behind, typically becomes ...
  • 第4344页
    We may be happy enough with little if little is what we have come to expect, and we may be miserable with much when we have been taught to desire everything. The price we have paid for expecting to...
  • 第37页
    But when a belief in an afterlife is dismissed as a childish and scientifically impossible opiate, the pressure to succeed and find fulfillment will inevitably be intensified by the awareness that ...

The Curtain (5)

  • 第141页
    "Young, you are strong in company
  • 第130页
    Reason is capable of unmasking the evil hiding treacherously behind a fine line. But faced with foolishness, reason is powerless. There is nothing to unmask. Foolishness does not wear a mask. It is...
  • 第126页
    ... But these are only passing urges that never turn into a lasting position.
  • 第125页
    The characters have their opinions, but the opinions are thin, with no weight, no necessity
  • 第122页
    Reality is utterly unashamed to repeat itself, but confronted with reality's repetition, thought always ends with falling silent.
> MlleHui的读书主页