“Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.”

“Whence then come my errors? They come from the sole fact that since the will is much wider in its range and compass than the understanding, I do not restrain it within the same bounds, but extend it also to things which I do not understand: and as the will is of itself indifferent to these, it easily falls into error and sin, and chooses the evil for the good, or the false for the true.”

“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”

“because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.”

“Some people compress compassion and call it love others, compress love and call it loneliness”

“Understanding begets empathy and compassion even for the meanest beggar - Oromis”