Be sympathetic

Lura 2022-01-25 08:03:32

Schopenhauer said that compassion is the foundation of morality.
Only when we feel the pain of others, we will not regard others as tools that can be used and animals that can be killed.
I don’t care about others outside of me, because that’s the lives of others. When this other person becomes my friend or relative, their life is not someone else's life, but my life. I care about the pain of my relatives and friends, happy or sad for them. But for a stranger, his life and death to me is just a physical disappearance, a digital change.
Lao Mao said at the Socialist National Congress that in an atomic war, China can kill half of its people and half of the remaining people. I guess that the dead part does not include himself and his family.
The killer can kill without blinking, but he won't kill the family he loves.
Liars can lie without blushing and heartbeat, but they will not deceive their family members, and hope that their family members will not deceive themselves.
Indifferent administrators will not be indifferent to their relatives and friends.
"If you are not my race, their hearts must be different." Ancient times thought so, and it is still the case today.
Hitler had a woman whom he loved very much. Mao would write lingering love poems for his first love.
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This movie has a turning point, it just appeared at the beginning.
HGW, who was indifferent to the pain of others, turned on the writer's doorbell, and wanted him to see the "truth" of love. Perhaps there has been a sad past in HGW. In his opinion, the so-called love is fake. However, the development of things is not as he imagined, other people's lives are not the same as their own.
HGW began to care about the writer and his lover, and this was the turning point. But the film seems to be not well prepared in the early stage, and this turning point is not obvious.
There is a paragraph about Lenin in the movie. Lenin said that if he keeps listening to Beethoven's music, the revolution will not succeed. A violent revolution is killing people, and there must be no kindness. The same is true for the cultural revolution.
It is often said that the Chinese cultural revolution has made everyone feel at risk and bad. This is because there is no compassion, so-called love can only be given to the proletariat.
I have never understood why Teresa Teng’s song was so popular in mainland China.
Until one day, I saw Yi Zhongtian wrote that her voice regained the warmth of humanity in the heart that had been hurt by the Cultural Revolution.
Tang Seng said to the fairy, "Being a demon is like being a human being. You must have a benevolent heart. With a benevolent heart, you will no longer be a demon but a human demon."
A sonata dedicated to good people is dedicated to sympathetic people. sonata.

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    Buchverkäufer: 29.80. Would you like it gift wrapped?

    Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: No. It's for me.

  • Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler: An innocent prisoner will become more angry by the hour due to the injustice suffered. He will shout and rage. A guilty prisoner becomes more calm and quiet. Or he cries. He knows he's there for a reason. The best way to establish guilt or innocence is non-stop interrogation.