Understanding of our fellow human beings...becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feelings in joy and sorrow.
Interpretation
True understanding of others requires empathy and shared emotions.
Albert Einstein emphasizes that genuine understanding of our fellow human beings is not just about cognitive comprehension but requires emotional involvement. It suggests that empathy, manifested through feelings of joy and sorrow, enriches our interactions, making them more meaningful and fruitful.
In practice
In a speech about community connections, quote this to highlight the importance of empathy.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.
I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.
Remember on this one thing, said Badger. The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. That is why we put these stories in each other's memories. This is how people care for themselves.
Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.
Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
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