I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their referents causally, and to that extent they needn't involve anything much in the way of learning. But even so it seems perverse to call them 'innate'. Here we see again the oddity of treating 'not learned' as sufficient for innate.
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.
In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
It's neat for Kyle to win,. . . I think you'd have sympathy for anybody if you put yourself in that situation and got taken out of the race car. But I have absolutely no information about what was going on.
There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.
And with the morn those angel faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile.
Accept these grateful tears. . . For thee they flow, for thee. . . That ever felt another's woe.
Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well.
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
His is a loving, tender hand, full of sympathy and compassion.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
We must never allow the voice of humanity within us to be silenced. It is humanity's sympathy with all creatures that first makes us truly human.
To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.