Disinterested Quotes
74 quotes by 70 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism.
— Cornell Capa
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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
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'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
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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
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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
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Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.
— Piero Ferrucci
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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
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance
— Frank Langella
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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
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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
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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
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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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