Compassion

Compassion

Compassion is the virtue of empathy for the suffering of others. It is regarded as a fundamental part of human love, and a cornerstone of greater social interconnection and humanism —foundational to the highest principles in philosophy, society, and personhood.

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Famous quotes containing the word compassion:

    “But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The wounded surgeon plies the steel
    That questions the distempered part;
    Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
    The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
    Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)