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  • I think the worst atmosphere for a six-year-old is one in which there are no expectations whatsoever. That is, it's worse for the child to grow up in a vacuum where "whatever you do is alright, I'm sure you'll succeed." That is a statement of disinterest. It says, "I really have no fantasies for you at all."

    Source: scottlondon.com
  • 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.

    My Religion (1927) ch. 6
  • 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.

    Sacrifice   Church   Doe  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation
  • To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

    Art   Ideas   Dubious  
  • To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

    Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”
  • When a man sought knowledge, it would not be long before it could be seen in his humbleness, his sight, upon his tongue and his hands, in his prayer, in his speech and in his disinterest (zuhd) in worldly allurements. And a man would acquire a portion of knowledge and put it into practice, and it would be better for him than the world and all it contains - if he owned it he would give it in exchange for the hereafter.

    Prayer   Men   Hands  
    Quoted in Ibn Al-Mubârak, Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqâ`iq Vol.1 p. 156,
  • It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

    Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC
  • Coping with rejection is an important skill to learn and understand when navigating the Art World. Rejection and disinterest is the rule, not the exception.

    Art   Skills   Rejection  
  • If racism is not the whole of the Tea Party, it is in its heart, along with blind hatred, a total disinterest in the welfare of others, and a full-flowered self-rationalizing refusal to accept the outcomes of elections, or the reality of democracy, or the narrowness of their minds and the equal narrowness of their public support.

    Party   Heart   Reality  
    "Keith Olbermann Returns With Special Comment: GOP Self-Destruction, Driving ‘Political Toyota’" by Danny Shea, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2010.
  • We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

    War   Adventure   Mean  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I have sought earnestly and with great diligence that good and high virtue by which man may draw closest to God... and as far as my intelligence would permit, I find that high virtue to be pure disinterest, that is, detachment from creatures. Our Lord said to Martha 'Unum est necessarium', which is to say; to be untroubled and pure, one thing is necessary and that is disinterest.

    Wisdom   Fun   Men  
  • It was a lazy community of mutual disinterest and alcohol.

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

    Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com
  • You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

    Heaven   Charity   Earth  
  • There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

  • One of the many interesting challenges nature presents us is its apparent disinterest in maintaining the order humans crave.

  • Ah, how little you know of human happiness - you comfortable and benevolent people! For happiness and unhappiness are brother and sister - or even twins who grow up together - or in your case - remain small together!

  • Beyond the pervasive disinterest in the visual arts among the Protestant community, the core problem lies in the fact that the art world rejects on several grounds work that is in any way explicitly Christian in content and also shrugs off as naive anything that has the semblance of hope or optimism in outlook.

    Christian   Art   Lying  
  • There is a fine line between love and hate, or haven't you heard? Sometimes it's hard to decipher exactly which emotion is strongest." I raised my chin. "I don't love you either." He lowered his head and watched me from underneath his dark lashes. "Are you certain? Because the emotion pouring out of you every time I'm near you is certainly not disinterest." "That doesn't mean it's love." "It could be, I promise you. Take off that sweater and give me ten minutes, and you'll believe beyond a shadow of a doubt you're in love.

    Hate   Believe   Love You  
  • My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

    Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1999, Del Rey
  • 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.

    Robert MacFarlane (2009). “Wild Places”, p.103, Granta Books
  • Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

    Reading   Book   Hands  
  • 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.

    Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics
  • Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

    Sports   Children   Kids  
  • Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.

  • Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

    Love   Friendship   Real  
    'The Good-Natured Man' (1768) act 1
  • The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

  • To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

  • The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

    Aunt   Two   Suffering  
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