Quotes on Disinterest

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward greater agency, but toward less...We have surrendered the unfolding of a new technological age to a small elite who have seized the capability on offer. But while Renaissance kings maintained their monopoly over the printing press by force, today's elite is depending on little more than our own disinterest.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.