There Must Be No Coercion In Matters

Compassion Is Not Feeling Sorry For Others. It's Not Soft. It Requires An Intellectual Effort.

I Think I Get From My Books What Other People Get From Family Or A Relationship Or From Prayer.

If It Is Not Tempered By Compassion, And Empathy, Reason Can Lead Men And Women Into A Moral Void.

The Great Task Of Our Time Is To Build A Global Society, Where People Can Live Together In Peace

He [aristotle] Pointed Out That People Who Had Become Initiates In The Various Mystery Religions Were Not Required To Learn Any Facts 'but To Experience Certain Emotions And To Be Put In A Certain Disposition.' Hence His Famous Literary Theory That Tragedy Effected A Purification (katharsis) Of The Emotions Of Terror And Pity That Amounted To An Experience Of Rebirth.