George Eliot Quotes about Compassion

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My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

George Eliot

Compassion, Joy, Suffering

George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.237, 谷月社

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

George Eliot

Wisdom, Simple, Compassion

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1272, Wordsworth Editions

These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience.

George Eliot

Stupid, Compassion, People

George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.129, Wordsworth Editions

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

George Eliot

Men, Compassion, Feelings

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.406, Penguin