Quotes by Empathy Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to die, or why Mr. Fortune and Mary Fortune: I just feel in my bones that that is the way it has to be. If I had the abstraction first I don't suppose I would write the story. Flannery O'Connor empathy apathy writing Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities. Frances Moore Lappé empathy compassion expression Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy for those characters, feeling for those characters, embarking on this adventure. Franck Khalfoun empathy adventure character I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known the bonobo first and the chimpanzee only later—or not at all. The discussion about human evolution might not revolve as much around violence, warfare and male dominance, but rather around sexuality, empathy, caring and cooperation. What a different intellectual landscape we would occupy! Frans de Waal empathy intellectual caring You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions. Frans de Waal empathy order people Empathy as a complex emotion is different. It requires awareness of the other person's feelings and of one's own reactions. The appropriate reaction may not be to cry when another person cries, but to reassure them, or even to leave them alone. Frans de Waal empathy different feelings The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures. Frans de Waal empathy brain giving Competitiveness is just as much a part of our nature as empathy. The ideal, in my view, is a democratic system with a social market economy, because it takes both tendencies into account. Frans de Waal empathy economy views I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you see examples of sympathy, empathy, reciprocity, a willingness to follow social rules. Dogs are a good example of a species that have and obey social rules; that's why we like them so much, even though they're large carnivores. Frans de Waal empathy dog animal Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring. Frans de Waal empathy successful mother Human morality is unthinkable without empathy. Frans de Waal unthinkable empathy morality As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more advanced ones, the latter are merely elaborations on the former and remain dependent on them. This also means that empathy comes naturally to us. It is not something we only learn later in life, or that is culturally constructed. Frans de Waal empathy later-in-life mean Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on. Frederic Chopin empathy motivational inspirational Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors. Fred Rogers empathy understanding love-is Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle. Gary Bauer empathy virtue principles Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy. Gary Bauer empathy government believe Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person. The whole idea of empathy is gone. We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions. Gary Shteyngart empathy ideas thinking If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! Gavin McInnes empathy normal failing Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all. Friedrich Nietzsche offensive empathy apathy We now know, from the latest research about neurons, that we are hard-wired for empathy. We're hard-wired for cooperation. That is something about what we are as people - what it means to be a human being. And what Barack Obama was addressing was not just race or just the nature of politics. The great speeches address who we are as people, what it means to be a human being. George Lakoff empathy mean people «678910111213141516»
