“The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.”
Source: How to Solve It (1945), p. 100
“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”
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Walter Brueggemann 1
American theologian 1933Related quotes
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“Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say.”
James A. Garfield
(1831–1881) American politician, 20th President of the United States (in office in 1881)
Message to his wife on being shot (2 July 1881), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 217 http://books.google.com/books?id=vCAFAAAAYAAJ
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Context: Tell her I am seriously hurt; how seriously I cannot yet say. I am myself, and hope she will come to me soon. I send my love to her.
“there is nothing to be done.
only accept it…
and hurt.”
Peter McWilliams
(1949–2000) American author and civil liberties advocate
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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
(1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
Talks in Saanen (1974), p. 71
1970s
Context: It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for all things, not just between two people, but for all human beings, for all things of the earth, the animals, the trees, everything the earth contains. When we have such compassion we will not despoil the earth as we are doing now, and we will have no wars.
