Quotes About Altruism

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

And so the good man ought to be Self-loving: because by doing what is noble he will have advantage himself and will do good to others: but the bad man ought not to be, because he will harm himself and his neighbours by following low and evil passions. In the case of the bad man, what he ought to do and what he does are at variance, but the good man does what he ought to do, because all Intellect chooses what is best for itself and the good man puts himself under the direction of Intellect.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

For liberality resides not in the multitude of the gifts but in the state of character of the giver.

Thus, to give money away is quite a simple task, but for the act to be virtuous, the donor must give to the right person, for the right purpose, in the right amount, in the right manner, and at the right time.

Concluons donc qu'on est ami dès qu'on souhaite à un autre ce qu'on souhaite pour soi-même.

Por la misma razón la justicia parece ser, entre todas las demás virtudes, la única que constituye un bien extraño, un bien para los demás y no para sí, porque se ejerce respecto a los demás, y no hace más que lo que es útil a los demás, que son o los magistrados o el pueblo entero.

it's not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you'll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you'll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating

Hij begint te praten. 'Je moet niet toegeven aan de narcistische reflex om te willen helpen. Zo'n man kan het alleen. Als je hem gaat helpen wordt hij afhankelijk. Je kweekt afhankelijkheid. Je moet hard zijn. Alleen helpen waar het echt niet anders kan en verder laten gaan. De grote vijand van de hulpverlener is de narcistische reflex.

Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Even after she'd given the last bit of what she had for him.

Only human beings and rabid animals turn on their own kind; gratuitous pain is unknown in nature.

When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity picking up a grain of sand is the same as taking up the whole universe. To save one sentient being is to save all sentient beings. Your efforts of this moment to save one person is the same as the eternal merit of Buddha.

To love one's neighbour as oneself — a commandment which is really justified by the fact that nothing else runs as strongly counter to the original nature of man.

Schuldgefühle, ... sind die fundamentalen Kräfte, die Großzügigkeit und Altruismus zugrundeliegen.

I don't know who it was, but someone, maybe or maybe not Henry James, said that there are two kinds of people in the world: those who upon seeing someone else suffering think, That could happen to me, and those who think, That will never happen to me. The first kind of people help us to endure, the second kind make life hell.

spare me your delight in the greater misfortune of others.' He paused, as a thought struck him. 'There really ought to be a word for that quality since so many people seem to relish the misfortune of others.' Cato cleared his throat.

To identify Woman with Altruism is to guarantee man absolute rights to her devotion; it is to impose on women a categorical must-be.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, and compassion.

One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

God is not present, even if we invoke him, where the afflicted are merely regarded as an occasion for doing good. They may even be loved on this account, but then they are in their natural role, the role of matter and of things. We have to bring to them in their inert, anonymous condition a personal love....In true love it is not we who love the afflicted in God; it is God in us who loves them.