Philosophy on kindness
7 passages from 6 thinkers — Plato, Aristotle, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Paul Sartre and others — on kindness.
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep, and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals.”
“The third kind of life is the life of contemplation (Bk. 1, Chapter III)”
“What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?”
“This problem is the most difficult and the last to be solved by mankind.”
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.”
“Compassion is the basis of all morality.”