“The word “empathy”—a rendering of the German Einfühlung, “feeling into”—is only a century old, but people have been interested for a long time in the moral implications of feeling our way into the lives of others. In “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” (1759), Adam Smith observed that sensory…
Simply one of the most amazing comics I’ve ever seen.
One of the best examples of “Imagine others complexly, you have no idea what they’ve gone through.” This is beautiful.
(via shaysarebel)
"Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
— John Stuart Mill (via nevver)
This moment is more than a means to the next. In this moment is contained both the journey and the destination.
When we rush this moment in order to get to the next, we are avoiding the present. To work with an eye on results is to live in a mental projection of time rather than the indefinable…
