Baruch Spinoza Quotes

Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.

I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

All pity is self-pity.

It is better to arouse envy than pity.

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.

I'm still human - I can't not feel.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.