being understanding Quotes

If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.

The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my way into the existence of Marion Bloom...Marion Bloom was a figment of James Joyce's imagination. If I can think my way into the existence of a being who has never existed, then I can think my way into the existence of a bat or a chimpanzee or an oyster, any being with whom I share the substrate of life.

Mercy?” “Just a minute,” I told Adam. “I'm in the middle of a revelation.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

I believe in sympathy, compassion and forgiveness.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.