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Etymologically, "compassion" means to suffer together. "Together," however, is different from "identically." Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping other people that is materially disinterested but emotionally self-regarding. As Rousseau wrote in Emile, "When the strength of an expansive soul makes me identify myself with my fellow, and I feel that I am, so to speak, in him, it is in order not to suffer that I do not want him to suffer. I am interested in him for love of myself..." Or, as Jean Bethke Elshtain has said, "Pity is about how deeply I can feel. And in order to feel this way, to experience the rush of my own pious reaction, I need victims the way an addict needs drugs. ↗

— William Voegeli

#etymology #narcissism #experience

In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories. ↗

— Robert Huber

#become #begun #compound #development #dynamics

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded. ↗

— Philip Kearny

#bullet #kill #me #molded #rebel

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules. ↗

— Aaron Klug

#biological #decided #i #interested #made

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#changes #clear #conception #function #mind

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#around #assistance #composer #forcing #goes

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#blood pressure #climbing #get #go #high

I don't care what tomorrow brings, as long as I have you. ↗

— Molly Harper

#harper #love #molly #tomorrow #art

The understanding, like the eye, whilst it makes us see and perceive all other things, takes no notice of itself: and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own object.... If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. ↗

— John Locke

#epistemology #metacognition #art

If you look in an etymology dictionary, ‘etymology’ is derived from the Greek word for ‘true’. That’s why I don’t trust what people say unless they’re speaking an ancient language. ↗

— Bauvard

#etymology #funny #humor #language #truth