命运主要由两个因素决定:环境和性格。环境规定了一个人的遭遇的可能范围;性格则规定了他对遭遇的反应方式。由于反应方式不同,相同的遭遇就有了不同的意义,因而也就成了本质上不同的遭遇。我在此意义上理解赫拉克利特的这一名言:“性格即命运。”但是,这并不说明人能决定自己 Fate is mainly determined by two factors: the environment and personality. The environment sets out the probable scope of a person’s encounter; character sets out the way he responds to the encounter. Because of the different ways of reacting, the same encounter has different meanings, and thus has become an essentially different encounter. In this sense, I understand Heraclitus’s famous saying: “character is destiny.” But that does not mean that one can decide oneself