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• As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

  Emil Nolde

  Artist, Kind, Pleasure

  Emil Nolde, Werner Haftmann (1959). “Emil Nolde”

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• Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act.

  Eric Zorn

  Flow, Virtue

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• 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

  Feelings, Different, May

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• 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

  Mean, Later In Life, Dolls

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• 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

  Giving, Brain, Rats

  "Do Humans Alone 'Feel Your Pain'?". The Chronicle, October 26, 2001.

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• You need to indoctrinate empathy out of people in order to arrive at extreme capitalist positions.

  Frans de Waal

  Order, People, Needs

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• He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.

  Fra Angelico

  Wish, Stories, Christ

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• I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I've come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

  G. M Gilbert

  Men, Thinking, Evil

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• We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

  Goldie Hawn

  Humanity, Needs, Loses

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• The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and smell

  Heinz Kohut

  Men, Smell, Understanding

  Heinz Kohut (2012). “The Restoration of the Self”, p.144, University of Chicago Press

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• I've learned that there is no currency like trust and no catalyst like hope. There is nothing worse for building relationships than pandering, on one hand, and preaching, on the other. And the most important quality we must all strengthen in ourselves is that of a deep human empathy, for that will provide the most hope of all and the foundation for our collective survival.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Hands, Survival, Important

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.223, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We've reached a point where we are not a very empathetic people, and art without empathy is art without an audience. My basic viewpoint is that without art we're alone.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, People, Viewpoints

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• The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

  Jean Decety

  Confusion, Ability, Feels

  Jean Decety (2012). “Empathy: From Bench to Bedside”, p.264, MIT Press

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• Peace equals ability to handle conflict, with empathy, nonviolence, and creativity.

  Johan Galtung

  Creativity, Conflict, Ability

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• Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

  John Warnock

  Communication, Thinking, People

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• Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

  Kofi Annan

  Color, Vision, Culture

  "Yehudi Menuhin Revered as Musician, Humanitarian / Admired by Einstein, gifted artist shared himself with the world" by Jesse Hamlin, www.sfgate.com. March 13, 1999.

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• The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

  Marcus Rediker

  Real, Britain And America, Slave Ships

  Marcus Rediker (2007). “The Slave Ship: A Human History”, p.13, Penguin

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• In the beginning was the relationship.

  Martin Buber

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• Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another

  Mark H. A. Davis

  Individual, Reactions

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• I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• By maintaining our attention on what's going on within others, we offer them a chance to fully explore and express their interior selves. We would stem this flow if we were to shift attention too quickly either to their request or to our own desire to express ourselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self, Desire, Attention

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• What evidence is there that we've adequately empathized with the other person? First, when an individual realizes that everything going on within has received full empathic understanding, they will experience a sense of relief. We can become aware of this phenomenon by noticing a corresponding release of tension in our own body.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Understanding, Relief, Body

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• A second even more obvious sign is that the person will stop talking. If we are uncertain as to whether we have stayed long enough in the process, we can always ask, "Is there more that you wanted to say"?

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Talking, Long, Enough

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• We need empathy to give empathy. When we sense ourselves being defensive or unable to empathize, we need to (a) stop, breathe, give ourselves empathy, (b) scream nonviolently, or (c) take time out.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Giving, Needs, Scream

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• Translate all self-judgments into self-empathy.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Self, Judgment, Translate

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