Activity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind,…

— Adam Smith

“I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and I'm sensible of a certain doubleness…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A real human being, however profoundly we sympathize with him, is in large part perceived by our senses, that is to say, remains opaque…

— Marcel Proust

“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say,…

— Marcel Proust

“Master Nathaniel looked at him. The fixed stare, the slightly-open mouth, the rigid motionless body, fettered by a misery too profound for restlessness —…

— Hope Mirrlees

“A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character…

— Flann O'Brien

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others;…

— Immanuel Kant

“There are many shades in the danger of adventures and gales, and it is only now and then that there appears on the face…

— Joseph Conrad

“He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he was never…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak

“Moderation and limitation represent the highest with regard to human strivings. If also an infinite longing never abandons the person because he is rooted…

— Helmuth Plessner