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> [Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/empathy-is-the-capacity-to-think-and-feel-oneself-into-the-inner-life-2/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

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## More by Heinz Kohut

> [“If you want to hurt somebody and you want to know where his vulnerable spot is you have to know him, before you can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/if-you-want-to-hurt-somebody-and-you-want-to-know-where-his/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [The empathic understanding of the experience of other human beings is as basic an endowment of man as his vision, hearing, touch, taste and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/the-empathic-understanding-of-the-experience-of-other-human-beings-is/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [Although those who didnt receive a parent love become obsessed with themselves to fulfill the feeling of emptiness, they keep on searching for others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/although-those-who-didnt-receive-a-parent-love-become-obsessed-with/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/man-can-no-more-survive-psychologically-in-a-psychological-milieu/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [The mark of a good marriage is when only one of you goes crazy at a time!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/the-mark-of-a-good-marriage-is-when-only-one-of-you-goes-crazy-at-a/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the lesson that what my patients tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/if-there-is-one-lesson-that-i-have-learned-during-my-life-as-an/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [The musician of disordered sound, the poet of decomposed language, the painter and sculptor of the fragmented visual and tactile world: they all portray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/the-musician-of-disordered-sound-the-poet-of-decomposed-language-the/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

> [Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/heinz-kohut/empathy-is-the-capacity-to-think-and-feel-oneself-into-the-inner-life-2/)

[Heinz Kohut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/heinz-kohut/)

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