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In order to allay my own suffering and to allay the suffering of others, I devote myself to others and accept them as myself.

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 In order to allay my own suffering and to allay the suffering of others, I devote myself to others and accept them as myself.

Feb 17,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #self #suffering #empathy #buddhism #misery #compassion #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra #nonself

I suffer much from the human, or rather inhuman, beings with whom I live – in short it is all as usual!

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 I suffer much from the human, or rather inhuman, beings with whom I live – in short it is all as usual!

Nov 27,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #Ludwig Wittgenstein #humanity #misery

If there is a solution, then what is the point of dejection? What is the point of dejection if there is no solution?

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 If there is a solution, then what is the point of dejection? What is the point of dejection if there is no solution?

May 05,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #ethics #misery #problems #dejection #Śāntideva #Bodhicaryāvatāra #solutions

Tragedy asks us to walk a delicate line. We are to acknowledge that life’s miseries strike deep, striking to the heart of

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 Tragedy asks us to walk a delicate line. We are to acknowledge that life’s miseries strike deep, striking to the heart of

Apr 16,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #humanity #Martha Nussbaum #Upheavals of Thought #ethics #misery #tragedy

It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t

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 It’s the pursuit of these things, and your attempts to avoid them, that leave you in such turmoil. And yet they aren’t

Jan 15,2021

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#goals #quotes #thoughts #philosophy #suffering #misery #Marcus Aurelius #Meditations #desires #stoicism #judgments

It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

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 It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

Nov 28,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #misery #George Eliot #Silas Marner #persecution

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet

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 There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet

Nov 12,2020

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#quotes #life #philosophy #hope #suffering #healing #growth #misery #George Eliot #Adam Bede #despair

The despot assures his subjects civil tranquility… but what do they gain, if the very tranquility they enjoy is one of

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 The despot assures his subjects civil tranquility… but what do they gain, if the very tranquility they enjoy is one of

Nov 03,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #society #Authority #misery #Jean Jacques Rousseau #The Social Contract #tranquility #tyranny

As the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is

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 As the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy, but is

Oct 24,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #suffering #politics #Baruch Spinoza #Tractatus Theologico Politicus #misery #novelty