Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.
It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.
Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?
Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.
Carry me like change in your pocket and spend me as you wish.
Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.
You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.
You haven't failed until you stop trying.
God existed before every religion; He exists in spite of all religions.
When the time comes, don’t be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.
The Decision ...I wiped my hands on my pinafore now sullied and stained not crisp or pressed as it had been before...
I can’t change my past, nobody can, I can make my future better
We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.
Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.
Freedom from one man is just another one.
In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the danger. There is great tension in the world, tens...
