Quotes About Empathy

Cruelty and compassion come with the chromosomes

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. But what if these others belong to a different species and inhabit a radically alien universe? For example, how can the sane get to know what it actually feels like to be mad?

If you can get out of your own way, you won't be in anyone else's.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge…

It's a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than try to be a little kinder.

Everything that happens is intrinsically like the man it happens to.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

As a victim, the Savage possessed, for Bernard, this enormous superiority over the others: that he was accessible. One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments what we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Una dintre funcÈ›iile principale ale unui prienten este s? sufere(într-o form? mai blând?, simbolic?) pedepsele pe care am dori s? le aplic?m duÈ™manilor noÈ™tri, dar nu izbutim.

Una de las principales funciones de nuestros amigos estriba en sufrir (en formas más suaves y simbólicas) los castigos que querríamos infligir, y no podemos, a nuestros enemigos.

He loved her infinitely, and for that reason was able to love everything in the world as much as he loved her.

Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness.

Avem intotdeauna tendinta sa atribuim propriile noastre defecte si celorlalti.

Cuando el individuo siente, la comunidad se resiente.

Një prej funksioneve më kryesore të një miku është (në një formë të butë e simbolike) të durojë ndëshkimet të cilat do të donim, por nuk kemi mundësi, t'ua japim armiqve tanë.

When the Individual feels, the community reels.

Other people can't make you see with their eyes. At the best they can only encourage you to use your own.

To understand sympathetically, with one's whole beings, the state of mind of some one radically unlike oneself is very difficult—is, so far as I am concerned, impossible.

The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be patronizingly kind.

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together.

But there's another one who doesn't get frightened." "Which one is that?" "The one that doesn't talk—just looks and listens and feels what's going on inside.

Happiness is a hard master- particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestioningly, than truth.

Nimeni nu te poate ajuta,nimeni nu poate fi vreodata prezent:oamenii pot sta în jurul t?u cât timp suferi ÅŸi eÅŸti pe moarte;dar ei stau într-o alt? lume.În lumea ta,eÅŸti absolut singur.Singur în suferinÅ£a ta,în agonia ta,aÅŸa cum eÅŸti singur în iubire,singur pân? ÅŸi în pl?cerea cea mai deplin împ?rt??it?.

Let us be kind to one another.