圖書信息
作 者:(西)巴爾塔沙·葛拉西安
出 版 社:中央編譯出版社
出版時間:2008-10-1
字 數:150000
頁 數:365
開 本:大32開
紙 張:膠版紙
包 裝:平裝
所屬分類:圖書 《自我實現/勵志 》勵志小品
定價:28.00
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人類思想史上最偉大的三部智慧奇書之一。
繼《沉思錄》、《道德情操論》之後,中央編譯出版社推出的又一大師經典。
比《君主論》更親民,比《孫子兵法》更實用,比《道德經》更積極,比《厚黑學》更光明。
內容簡介
作者巴爾塔沙·葛拉西安(1601一1658),一個滿懷入世熱忱的耶穌會教士,對人類的愚行深惡痛絕。但《智慧書--永恆的處世經典》全書極言人有臻於完美的可能,並雲只要佐以技巧,善必勝惡。在《智慧書--永恆的處世經典》中,完美並不靠宗教上的啟示(全書罕言上帝),而取決於人的資源與勤奮:警覺、自製、有自知之明及其餘明慎之道。
這本書談的是知人觀事、判斷、行動的策略--使人在這個世界上功成名就且臻於完美的策略。全書由三百則箴言警句構成,這些箴言警句滋味絕佳而不可不與友朋同事分享共賞,又鞭辟入裡而不能不蒙敵人對手於鼓裡。本書的理想讀者,是因日常事業而需與他人周旋應付者--他必須發現他人用心,贏得其好感與友誼,或反制其機謀及使他人意志一籌莫展。和所有警句一樣,本書的讀法是慢嚼細咽,且每次少許即可,以便體會箇中三昧。
歐洲有許多學者相信,千百年來,人類思想史上具有永恆價值的處世智慧包含於三大奇書:一是馬基雅維里的《君王論》,二是《孫子兵法》,三就是這本《智慧書》。德國大哲學家叔本華曾刻意將《智慧書》譯成德文,並盛讚此書"絕對的獨一無二"。尼采也讚揚此書在論述道德的奧妙方面,整個歐洲沒有一本書更精微、更曲折多姿。在1873年的一則札記里,尼采寫道:"葛拉西安的人生經驗顯示出今日無人能比的智慧與穎悟。"
作者簡介
巴爾塔沙·葛拉西安(Baltasar Gracian),17世紀西班牙哲學家、思想家、耶穌會教士。1601年出生於西班牙阿拉貢的貝爾蒙特村。1619年,進入耶穌會見習修行,此後歷任軍中神父、告解神父、宣教師、教授及行政人員等職。1637年,其處女作《英雄》(El heroe)問世,旋即引起轟動;1640年,討論領袖素質的《政治家》(El politico)出版;1643年,分析詩歌的《詩之才藝》(Agudeza y arte de ingenio)出版;1647年,巔峰之作《智慧書》(Oraculo)問世。
葛拉西安因其筆鋒犀利、譏諷政治,被耶穌會警告,未獲批准不得出版作品。1651年,寓言小說《批評家》(El ctitican)問世。為此,他被耶穌會解除了教席,放逐至一鄉下小鎮,直至1658年終老於此。
葛拉西安一生坎坷,他的思想卻對許多歐洲著名道德倫理學家以及德國17-18世紀的宮廷文學和19世紀的哲學產生了重要的影響。
圖書目錄
譯者序:歷經時光淘洗而不衰的處世經典/1
1.萬物已近極致/3
Everything is at its acme
2.品性與智慧/3
Character and intellect
3.做事時常留有懸念/3
Keep matters for a time in suspense
4.有識亦應有膽/5
Knowledge and courage
5.讓別人依賴你/5
Create a feeling of dependence
6.至善至美的境界/7
A man at his highest point
7.不要比上司更耀眼/9
Avoid victories over superiors
8.不被激情左右/11
To be without passions
9.避免土生土長的缺陷/11
Avoid the faults of your nation
10.財富與名望/13
Fortune and fame
11.擇師而交/13
Cultivate those who can teach you
12.自然和人工:原料與加工/15
Nature and art
13.有時三思而行,有時立下決斷/15
Act sometimes on second thoughts,
sometimes on first impulse
14.事物本身及做事的方法/19
The thing itself and the way it is done
15.廣納賢人/19
Keep ministering spirits
16.學識和善心/21
Knowledge and good intentions
17.變換你的行為模式/21
Vary the mode of action
18.能力和努力/23
Application and ability
19.事前不要讓人期望過高/25
Arouse no exaggerated expectations on entering
20.生逢其時的人/27
A man of the age
21.幸運之道/27
The art of being lucky
22.學以致用/29
A man of knowledge to the point
23.沒有瑕疵/29
Be spotless
24.控制自己的幻想/31
Keep the imagination under control
25.善於領會弦外之音/31
Know how to take a hint
26.揪出他人的把柄/33
Find out each man’s thumbscrew
27.求精深重於求廣博/33
Prize intensity more than extent
28.超凡脫俗/35
Common in nothing
29.剛直的人/35
A man of rectitude
30.不做毀譽之事/37
Have naught to do with occupations of ill-repute
31.學會趨利避害/39
Select the lucky and avoid the unlucky
32.因善行而聞名/39
Have the reputation of being gracious
33.知道如何逃避/41
Know how to withdraw
34.了解自己的最強項/41
Know your strongest point
35.遇事斟酌,遇要事則更要斟酌/43
Think over things,most over the most important
36.進退之際,了解時運/45
In acting or refraining,weigh your luck
37.準備一些譏誚話,並善加利用/45
Keep a store of sarcasms,and know how to use them
38.急流勇退/47
Leave your luck while winning
39.了解事物成熟的時機,並善加利用/49
Recognize when things are ripe,and then enjoy them
40.獲得人們的好感/49
Gain the goodwill of people
41.切勿言過其實/51
Never exaggerate
42.天生為王/53
Born to wommand
43.心隨精英,口隨大眾/53
Think with the few and speak with the many
44.英雄相惜/55
Sympathy with great minds
45.狡猾可以運用,但不能濫用/57
Use,but do not abuse,cunning
46.控制你的反感情緒/57
Master your antipathies
47.避免“為榮譽而決鬥”/59
Avoid “affairs of honour”
48.做一個有深度的人至關重要/59
So much depends on being a person of depth
49.明察善斷/61
Observation and judgment
50.不失自尊/61
Never lose self-respect
51.選擇有道/63
Know how to choose well
52.從不慌亂/63
Never be put out
53.聰明且勤奮/65
Be diligent and intelligent
54.懂得展示你的勇氣/65
Know how to show your teeth
55.善於等待/67
Wait
56.隨機應變/67
Have presence of mind
57.慢且穩/69
Be slow and Sure
58.恰當展現自己/69
Adapt yourself to your company
59.要有完美的收場/71
Finish off well
60.判斷準確/71
A sound judgment
61.卓越之處求卓越/73
To excel in what is excellent
62.善其事必先利其器/73
Use good instruments
63.搶先為上/75
To be the first of the kind is an excellence
64.遠離煩惱/77
Avoid worry
65.培養高雅的品味/77
Elevated taste
66.使結局完美/79
See that things end well
67.選擇能夠獲得殊榮的行業/81
Choose an occupation that wins distinction
68.點撥其心智,勝於助其回憶/81
It is better to help with intelligence than with memory
69.不要衝動行事/83
Do not give way to every common impulse
70.學會拒絕/85
Know how to refuse
71.不要左右搖擺/87
Do not vacillate
72.要當機立斷/87
Be resolute
73.安然退避/89
Utilize slips
74.與人為善/89
Do not be unsociable
75.選擇一位英雄作為偶像/91
Choose a heroic ideal
76.不要總開玩笑/93
Do not always be jesting
77.做人須八面玲瓏/93
Be all things to all men
78.做事有道/95
The art of undertaking things
79.輕鬆快活的個性/95
A genial disposition
80.獲取信息要謹慎/97
Take care to get information
81.勇於推陳出新/97
Renew your brilliance
82.凡事無論好與壞,不要走極端/99
Drain nothing to the dregs,neither good nor ill
83.容許自己有無傷大雅之過/99
Allow yourself some venial fault
84.善用對手/101
Make use of your enemies
85.不做無所不知之人/103
Do not be a wild card
86.預防流言蜚語/103
Prevent scandal
87.文明和高雅/105
Culture and elegance
88.舉止高貴大方/107
Let your behaviour be fine and noble
89.了解自己/107
Know yourself
90.長壽的秘密/109
The secret of long life
91.對做某事審慎與否若有疑慮,就別著手去做/109
Never set to work at anything if you have
any doubts of its prudence
92.要有超凡的智慧/111
Transcendent wisdom
93.多才多藝/111
Versatility
94.讓你的才能高深莫測/113
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown
95.讓人們保持對你的期望/113
Keep expectation alive
96.至高無上的辨別力/113
The highest discretion
97.贏得並維護美名/115
Obtain and preserve a reputation
98.掩飾你的意圖/115
Write your intentions in cypher
99.本質與表象/117
Reality and appearance
100.做一個清醒的人,智慧的信徒,賢能的臣子/117
Be a man without illusions,
a wise christian,a philosophic courtier
101.世上的一半人嘲笑另一半人,其實他們都是蠢人/119
One half of the world laughs at the other,
and fools are they all
102.天降大福需有大心胸消受/119
Be able to stomach big slices of luck
103.讓每人都保有尊嚴/121
Let each keep up his dignity
104.明確不同工作的要求/123
Know the demands of different occupations
105.勿遭人煩/123
Don’t be a bore
106.勿炫耀你的地位/125
Do not parade your position
107.勿自鳴得意/127
Show no self-satisfaction
108.與人同行是成為偉人的捷徑/129
The path to greatness is along with others
109.不要吹毛求疵/129
Be not censorious
110.不要坐以待斃/131
Do not wait till you are a sinking sun
111.贏得朋友/131
Have friends
112.博取他人的好感/133
Gain good-will
113.未雨綢繆/135
In prosperity prepare for adversity
114.避免與人相爭/135
Never compete
115.習慣熟人的缺點/137
Get used to the failings of your familiars
116.只和可敬之人交往/137
Only act with honourable men
117.決不談論自己/139
Never talk about yourself
118.要贏得謙恭有禮的名聲/139
Acquire the reputation of courtesy
119.避免惹人厭煩/141
Avoid becoming disliked
120.生活講求實際/143
Live practically
121.不要小題大做/145
Do not make a business of what is no business
122.言行應有威信/145
Distinction in speech and action
123.避免矯揉造作/147
Avoid affectation
124.要被他人想念/147
Get yourself missed
125.不要成為污點記錄簿/149
Do not be a black list
126.愚蠢並非做了蠢事,而在於做後不知掩飾/151
Folly consists not in
committing folly,but in not hiding it when committed
127.凡是從容優雅/151
Grace in everything
128.要有高遠的志向/153
Highmindedness
129.從不抱怨/153
Never complain
130.要乾,且要讓人看見/155
Do and be seen doing
131.慷慨大度/157
Nobility of feeling
132.修正自己的判斷/157
Revise your judgments
133.寧可同醉,而不獨醒/159
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone
134.加倍儲存你的資源/159
Double your resources
135.不要滋長唱反調的習氣/161
Do not nourish the spirit of contradiction
136.抓住事情關鍵/163
Post yourself in the centre of things
137.聖人自足/163
The sage should be self-sufficing
138.任其自然的藝術/165
The art of letting things alone
139.冷靜面對倒霉的日子/165
Recognize unlucky days
140.一眼看到事物好的一面/167
Find the good in a thing at once
141.不要只傾聽自己的聲音/169
Do not listen to yourself
142.當對手先站在正確的一方時,你不能固執地站在錯誤的一方/171
Never from obstinacy take the wrong side because your
opponent has anticipated you in taking the right one
143.別為免俗而玩弄詭辯之術/173
Never become paradoxical in order to avoid the trite
144.開始於他人,受用於自己/173
Begin with another’s to end with your own
145.藏好你受傷的手指/175
Do not show your wounded finger
146.透過現象看本質/177
Look into the interior of things
147.採納他人的建議/177
Do not be inaccessible
148.掌握談話的藝術/179
Have the art of conversation
149.懂得推罪於人/181
Know how to put off ills on others
150.推銷得法/181
Know how to get your price for things
151.高瞻遠矚/183
Think beforehand
152.不與令自己黯然失色之人為伍/185
Never have a companion who casts you in the shade
153.不要去填補前人留下的巨大空缺/185
Beware of entering where there is a great gap to be filled
154.不輕易相信,也不輕易喜歡/187
Do not believe,or like,lightly
155.掌控激情的藝術/189
The art of mastering your passions
156.選擇你的朋友/189
Select your friends
157.識人別出錯/191
Do not make mistakes about character
158.善用朋友/193
Make use of your friends
159.忍受愚蠢/195
Put up with fools
160.說話要謹慎/195
Be careful in speaking
161.認清自身喜愛的缺點/197
Know your pet faults
162.如何戰勝對手和誹謗者/197
How to triumph over rivals and detractors
163.決不因同情而捲入他人的不幸/199
Never,from sympathy with the unfortunate,
involve yourself in his fate
164.投石問路/201
Throw straws in the air
165.鬥爭也要講體面/201
Wage war honourably
166.分辨善言者與善行者/203
Distinguish the man of words from the man of deeds
167.知道怎樣依靠自己/203
Know how to take your own part
168.不要淪為愚蠢的怪物/205
Do not indulge in the eccentricities of folly
169.多加小心,避免萬一失手勝過百發百中/207
Be more careful not to miss once
than to hit a hundred times
170.凡事有所保留/207
In all things keep something in reserve
171.不要濫用人情/209
Do not waste influence
172.決不與一無所有者爭鬥/209
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose
173.與人相交,不要像玻璃般易碎,朋友間尤其如此/211
Do not be glass in intercourse,still less in friendship
174.不要活在匆忙中/213
Do not live in a hurry
175.做個實在的人/213
A solid man
176.自知或從知者處知/215
Have knowledge,or know those that have knowledge
177.避免與人太親近/217
Avoid familiarities in intercourse
178.信賴你的內心/217
Trust your heart
179.緘默是才能的標誌/219
Reticence is the seal of capacity
180.決不被敵人誤導/221
Never be guided by what your enemy has done
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295.若未奏效,不要邀功/359
Do not affect what you have not effected
296.高貴的品質/361
Noble qualities
297.行動總如處於監視中/361
Always act as if your acts were seen
298.可造就非凡之人的三大要素/363
Three things go to a prodigy
299.讓人有飢餓感/363
Leave off hungry
300.總而言之,做一位聖徒/365
In one word,be a saint
媒體評論
這樣的書,僅僅讀一遍顯然是不夠的,它是一本隨時都能用上的書,簡言之,它是一位終身伴侶。
——叔本華
《智慧書》中所昭示的人生經驗,直至今日仍能顯示出無人能比的智慧與穎悟。
——尼采
本書不可不與朋友、同事分享共賞,其中的箴言、警句鞭辟入裡,幫助我們不被敵人、對手蒙於鼓裡。
——克里斯多夫·莫勒
《智慧書》在一定程度上兼有《君王論》的坦率和《孫子兵法》的高品位,它一方面使我們嘆服其機智與完美的審慎態度,另一方面又使我們產生向善的心理。
——北京大學教授 辜正坤