Disinterested Quotes

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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… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also… — Marie Curie
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgement but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you… — Midge Decter
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness. — Therese of Lisieux
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied,… — Remy de Gourmont
Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake… — Charles Spurgeon
The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. — Cornell Capa
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… — Milton Friedman
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… — George Washington
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave… — Herbert Croly
Generosity is, by definition, disinterested. — Piero Ferrucci
Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of… — Swami Vivekananda
I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance — Frank Langella
The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the… — Felix Frankfurter
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested… — Joseph Butler
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which… — Walter Pater

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