#EdithStein

“At twenty-five she wrote the century's most careful analysis of what it is to grasp another person's suffering; at fifty she was seen in a transit camp calmly washing and combing the hair of children whose mothers had collapsed in despair, days before the gas chamber.”

“Empathy is a unique act of its own kind, in which another person's experience is given to you as theirs — the foundation of how we know other minds, how communities exist, and even how we know ourselves.”