悲劇的誕生The Birth Of Tragedy 第32期:哈姆雷特的教訓

Knowledge kills action, for in order to act we require the veil of illusion;

真知灼見毒殺了行爲，行爲需要幻象的矇蔽；

such is Hamlet's doctrine, not to be confounded with the cheap wisdom of Jack the Dreamer, who through too much reflection, as it were a surplus of possibilities, never arrives at action.

這就是哈姆雷特給我們的教訓，而絕不是患得患失，無所適從，終於一事無成的醉生夢死之徒的假聰明。

What, both in the case of Hamlet and of Dionysian man, overbalances any motive leading to action, is not reflection but knowledge, the apprehension of truth and its terror.

這絕不是患得患失，不，這是真知灼見，是洞觀慘淡的真實，是熟思一切引起行爲的動機，在哈姆雷特是如此，在醉境中的人也是如此。

Now no comfort any longer avails, desire reaches beyond the transcendental world, beyond the gods themselves, and existence, together with its glittering reflection in the gods and an immortal Beyond, is denied.

此時此際，一切慰藉都無補於事。他的憧憬業已超過了死後的來世，也超過了冥冥中的神靈，早已把生存，乃至神靈，永生，彼岸所反映的光輝生活，棄若敝屣。

The truth once seen, man is aware everywhere of the ghastly absurdity of existence, comprehends the symbolism of Ophelia's fate and the wisdom of the wood sprite Silenus: nausea invades him.

一旦覺悟了所見的真理，哈姆雷特舉目回顧，便見生存之恐怖或荒唐，他恍然大悟奧斐里亞的命運的象徵意義；現在他能瞭解山靈西列諾斯的智慧了，他滿懷厭世的情緒。