Quotes About Empathy

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Amore fraterno. La forma più fondamentale d'amore, è l'amore fraterno. Con questo intendo senso di responsabilità, premure, rispetto, comprensione per il prossimo; esso è caratterizzato dall'assenza di esclusività.

Senza amore, l'umanità non sopravvivrebbe un solo giorno.

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

As Simone Weil expressed it so beautifully:The same words can be commonplace or extraordinary according to the manner in which they are spoken. And this manner depends on the depth of the region in a man's being from which they proceed without the will being able to do anything. And by a marvelous agreement they reach the same region in him who hears them. Thus the hearer can discern, if he has any power of discernment, what is the value of the words.

Die Haltung dem Fremden gegenüber ist von der Haltung sich selbst gegenüber nicht zu trennen. Solange ich einen Mitmenschen als grundsätzlich verschieden von mir erfahre, solange er für mich ein Fremder ist, bleibe ich auch mir selber ein Fremder.

In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.

The essence of the Torah is the command: Do not do unto others as you should not want them to do unto you—the rest is commentary. Go and study.

The deepest need of man, then, is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness. The absolute failure to achieve this aim means insanity, because the panic of complete isolation can be overcome only by such a radical withdrawal from the world outside that the feeling of separation disappears-- because the world outside, from which one is separated, has disappeared.

Ben sevdiÄŸim insan?n, bana hizmet etmesi için deÄŸil, kendi istediÄŸince dilediÄŸi gibi büyüyüp geliÅŸmesini isterim. EÄŸer bir baÅŸkasm? sevi- yorsam, onu benim yararlanaca??m bir nesne olarak deÄŸil, o olarak al?r, ister erkek olsun, ister kad?n, onunla kendimi bir k?lar?m.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

L'amore non è soltanto una relazione con una particolare persona: è un'attitudine, un orientamento di carattere che determina i rapporti di una persona col mondo, non verso un oggetto d'amore. Se una persona ama solo un'altra persona ed è indifferente nei confronti dei suoi simili, il suo non è amore, ma un attaccamento simbiotico, o un egotismo portato all'eccesso.

The ability to love depends on one's capacity to emerge from narcissism

the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

O amor não é, primacialmente, uma relação para com uma pessoa específica; é uma atitude, uma orientação de caráter, que determina a relação de alguém para com o mundo como um todo, e não para com um "objeto" de amor.

L'amore è un potere attivo dell'uomo; un potere che annulla le pareti che lo separano dai suoi simili, che gli fa superare il senso d'isolamento e di separazione, e tuttavia gli permette di essere se stesso e di conservare la propria integrità.

Yeni insan ve yeni bir toplumun gerçekleÅŸebilmesi için ilk önce, eski motivasyonlar olan kar ve güçlülük tutkular?n?n yerlerini yenilerine; olmaya, diÄŸer insanlar? anlamaya çal??maya ve paylaÅŸmaya b?rakmalar? gerekmektedir. Sonra pazar ekonomisi karakterinin yerine, üretici ve sevme yeteneÄŸine sahip karakterin ve sibernetik din yerine de, radikal-hümaniter bir anlay???n geçmesi ÅŸartt?r.

Dare dà più gioia che ricevere, non perché è privazione, ma perché in quell'atto mi sento vivo.

Wenn ich einen Menschen wahrhaft liebe, so liebe ich alle Menschen, so liebe ich die Welt, so liebe ich das Leben. Wenn ich zu einem anderen sagen kann: Ich liebe dich, muss ich auch sagen können: Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst.

Real conflicts between two people, those which do not serve to cover up or to project, but which are experienced on the deep level of inner reality to which they belong, are not destructive. They lead to clarification, they produce a catharsis from which both persons emerge with more knowledge and more strength.

The teacher is taught by his students, the actor is stimulated by his audience, the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

Genuine love increases the capacity to love and to give to others. The true lover loves the whole world, in his or her love for a specific person.

ÇoÄŸumuz sevilmeyi ummuÅŸuzdur yaln?zca giydirilip beslenmeyi deÄŸil, anla??lmay?, dikkate al?nmay?, sayg? gösterilmeyi beklemiÅŸizdir. ÇoÄŸumuz inanabilmeyi ummuÅŸuzdur. Küçükken, o insan buluÅŸu olan yalan? henüz bilmiyorduk yaln?zca sözlerle söylenen yalan? deÄŸil, sesle, mimiklerle, gözlerle, yüzsel anlat?mla yalan söylemeyi de bilmiyorduk.

If two people who have been strangers, as all of us are, suddenly let the wall between them break down, and feel close, feel one, this moment of oneness is one of the most exhilarating, most exciting experiences in life. It is all the more wonderful and miraculous for persons who have been shut off, isolated, without love.