Fritz Breithaupt > Quotes

“The price of empathy is the loss of the self; its reward is the (re)discovery of the self in the other.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“Empathy, the Enemy of the Self (Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil)”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“one who rules, loves, and hates but does not exist as a self.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“the self would dominate others and therefore feel no empathy. Empathy keeps the self from being a self.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“who thins themself out, and in so doing loses their self (if they had one in the first place). In this way, they become receptive and able to recognize and project onto others the self that they are lacking.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“The intellectual process of understanding another’s thoughts or feelings also does not meet this definition of empathy. Accordingly, people who routinely experience the situations of others, such as doctors and caregivers, as well as more rationally calculating people, would according to this definition be less apt to feel empathy.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“This definition makes a clear distinction between sympathy and empathy, with sympathy being an affective reaction to the benefit of someone in need: “I feel for you but not like you.” To be sure, according to this model sympathy can, but does not have to, emerge from empathy.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy

“The shared experience of another’s situation begins the moment we participate in someone else’s fate, no matter how large or small.”
― Fritz Breithaupt, The Dark Sides of Empathy