Sunday, April 6, 2014

羨慕 (Envy)

Envy is secret admiration. An admirer who feels that he cannot become happy by abandoning himself to it chooses to be envious of that which he admires. [...] Admiration is happy self-surrender; envy is unhappy self-assertion.

Søren Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2013, p. 86.

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