Tags / 3 quotes from 3 sources
#sympathy
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Christian hypochondria
Hypochondria.—There are people who, from sympathy and anxiety for others become hypochondriacal. The resulting form of compassion is nothing else than sickness. So, also, is there a Christian hypochondria, from which those singular, religiously agitated people suffer who place…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Logic alone doesn't motivate good conduct
In his first book, An Inquiry Into the Good, for example, arguing that logical reasons are often not sufficient to motivate good conduct, he alludes to a maxim of Confucius: “The saying Do not do unto others what you would not have others do unto you, is nearly meaningless…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
Becoming one with the midges
By now it must have been more than two hours into the trip, and I was slumped against the beech looking upward into the tree canopy, idly watching the midges darting to and fro in the shafts of sunlight. How much energy they put into something so futile! There’s no real…