The Science of Getting Rich

by Wallace D. Wattles

who wish to get rich first, and philosophize afterward.

promulgated

taking the statements upon faith, that he will prove their truth by acting upon them without fear or hesitation.

conviction

exact science, and failure is impossible.

logical basis

It is the foundation of all the Oriental philosophies, and of those of Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Emerson.

In writing this book I have sacrificed all other considerations to plainness and simplicity of style, so that all might understand.

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

his fullest mental, spiritual, and physical unfoldment;

to be really rich does not mean to be satisfied or contented with a little.

we live for the body, we live for the mind, we live for the soul.

Desire is possibility seeking expression, or function seeking performance.

He cannot live fully in mind without books and time to study them, without opportunity for travel and observation, or without intellectual companionship.

A man's highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving. The man who has nothing to give cannot fill his place as a husband or father, as a citizen, or as a man.

啪啪打叔本华的脸-叔本华说幸福是独处，不过叔本华确实很有钱。

you can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects;

many people who have great talent remain poor, while other who have very little talent get rich.

哎，我就是个有才的人

Getting rich involves the necessity of dealing with men, and of being where there are people to deal with; and if these people are inclined to deal in the way you want to deal, so much the better. But that is about as far as environment goes.

People get rich in every business, and in every profession; while their next-door neighbors in the same vocation remain in poverty.

At different periods the tide of opportunity sets in different directions,

There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.

they are not being "ground" by the trusts and combinations of capital.

The individual worker, however, is not held down by the ignorance or the mental slothfulness of his class;

The visible supply is practically inexhaustible; and the invisible supply really is inexhaustible.

就这一论调来说 。 ，100年前和今天也许大不一样。环境的破坏

There is no limit to the supply of Formless Stuff, or Original Substance.

这个确实。

No man, therefore, is poor because nature is poor, or because there is not enough to go around.

Original Substance is alive with creative energy, and is constantly producing more forms.

The Formless Stuff responds to the needs of man; it will not let him be without any good thing.

it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.

The universe is a great Living Presence,

Nature is formed for the advancement of life; its impelling motive is the increase of life.

Original Substance moves according to its thoughts; every form and process you see in nature is the visible expression of a thought in Original Substance.

We live in a thought world, which is part of a thought universe.

一念生，一念成。一念不生，一念偶尔也成。

it does start in motion

Man is a thinking center, and can originate thought. All the forms that man fashions with his hands must first exist in his thought; he cannot shape a thing until he has thought that thing.

The theory is true until the process fails;

这个逻辑不是科学逻辑。科学逻辑是凡是没有证真的都是错的

A man's way of doing things is the direct result of the way he thinks about things.

This is especially true when truth is contrary to appearances. Every appearance in the visible world tends to produce a corresponding form in the mind which observes it; and this can only be prevented by holding the thought of the truth.

To look upon the appearances of poverty will produce corresponding forms in your own mind, unless you hold to the truth that there is no poverty; there is only abundance.

he who acquires this power becomes a master mind. He can conquer fate; he can have what he wants.

Then we must grasp the truth that every thought held in this substance becomes a form, and that man can so impress his thoughts upon it as to cause them to take form and become visible things.

凡是我可以想，都可以作为

you must dwell upon this until it is fixed in your mind, and has become your habitual thought.

It is forever Becoming More; it must do so, if it continues to be at all.

乍看不是真的，自满也可以。但我们不是独立存在的，别人进步意味着你被淘汰。

Every thought we think makes it necessary for us to think another thought; consciousness is continually expanding. Every fact we learn leads us to the learning of another fact; knowledge is continually increasing. Every talent we cultivate brings to the mind the desire to cultivate another talent; we are subject to the urge of life, seeking expression, which ever drives us on to know more, to do more, and to be more.

It is the desire of God that you should get rich. He wants you to get rich because he can express himself better through you if you have plenty of things to use in giving him expression. He can live more in you if you have unlimited command of the means of life.

god可以是collective human。经济

You must want real life, not mere pleasure of sensual gratification.

Life is the performance of function; and the individual really lives only when he performs every function, physical, mental, and spiritual, of which he is capable, without excess in any.

You do not want to get rich solely to enjoy mental pleasures, to get knowledge, to gratify ambition, to outshine others, to be famous.

这不就是我吗

You do not want to get rich solely for the good of others, to lose yourself for the salvation of mankind, to experience the joys of philanthropy and sacrifice. The joys of the soul are only a part of life; and they are no better or nobler than any other part.

But remember that extreme altruism is no better and no nobler than extreme selfishness; both are mistakes.

极度维护道德也是一样