What I just read was...

"Feeling directed exclusively toward oneself is a dull, sterile emotion; it strives on its own accord to reach out beyond itself and yearns for a reciprocal feeling elsewhere. Only by considering our fellow beings do we ascend to a true emotional life. This natural love for my species is the only thing that makes it possible for me to project myself mentally; with it, I feel not only myself but at the same time the feeling of another being."

"Feeling rests on a disturbance of the well-being of the entire person"

- Robert Vischer, On the Optical Sense of Form: a Contribution to Aesthetics, (1873) p.105