“Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.” HumansChallengesHuman BeingsFictionTeachingEmpathySkinsMiracle Author:Hugh Howey
“I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.” IfsThinkingHumansLooksMatterDoneHuman BeingsEmpathyNo Matter WhatDetailsNo Empathy Author:Andrea Arnold
“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.” HumansChildrenReasonFoundHurtHuman BeingsEmpathyTestsOur ChildrenTriumphAnatomy Book:The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life Source: The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life
“nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.” IfsFeelsHumansImportantSufferingWealthHuman BeingsCompassionCareersEmpathyDignity Author:Audrey Hepburn
“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that "No man is an island," but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.” MenGivingHumansMeanDoeFeelingsCareFallHuman BeingsActingMistakeMoralFateDesignCreaturesEmpathyBuiltFellowsVictimIndifferenceIslandsTwistsSpectatorsDetachedLiving CreaturesTheoremsAndroidsActing OutDonne Author:Philip K. Dick
“Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.” HumansChildrenHelpingFeelingsHomeFormTurnsLanguageEasyHuman BeingsResponsibilityCompassionTechnologySocietyCommunicationMoralityEmpathyCapacityBasesFellowsReachingNeighborhoodReach OutFatigueFellow Feeling Author:Sissela Bok