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Three passions 三种激情 罗素 《三种激情》是选自《伯特兰·罗素自传》的一篇优秀散文。它既是作者心灵的抒发，也是 生命体验的总结。作者以深刻的感悟和敏锐的目光，分析了人生中的三种激情，即对爱的渴 望，对知识的追求和对人类苦难的同情。对爱的渴望，使人欣喜若狂，既能解除孤独，又能 发现美好的未来。对知识的追求，使人理解人心，了解宇宙，掌握科学。爱和知识把人引向 天堂般的境界，而对人类的同情之心又使人回到苦难深重的人间。作者认为这就是人生，值 得为此再活一次的人生。这篇散文似乎信手拈来，但却耐人寻味。充满激情，充满感慨，充 满智慧，情文并茂，逻辑性和感染力极强。 伯特兰·罗素(Bertrand Russell,1872-1970)是英国声誉卓著，影响深远的哲学家、数学家、逻 辑学家和散文家。他生于威尔士的特莱雷克，就读于剑桥三一学院，在其漫长的一生中完成 了40 余部著作，涉及哲学、数学、伦理、社会、教育、历史、宗教及政治等许多领域。他 早年的成就主要在数学和逻辑学，中年关注伦理道德、教育、政治，激励和启发富有进取精 神的人。在 1921 年曾来中国，在北京大学作过讲座。他在 1950 年荣获诺贝尔文学奖。在 政治上，他反对侵略战争，主张和平，晚年参加反战示威。主要著作有《数学原理》、《哲学 大纲》、《教育与美好生活》、《罗素自传》三卷本。 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy –ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what- at last- I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flu. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of crie