Quotes About Disinterested

The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology.

Work appealed to me; school did not. I was a disinterested, bored student.

she was on the telephone, wearing that expression of disinterested attentiveness that betokens a person on hold.

The moral motive comes from setting all my interests aside, and addressing the question before me by appealing to reason alone—and that means appealing to considerations that any rational being would be equally able to accept. From that posture of disinterested enquiry we are led inexorably, Kant thought, to the categorical imperative, which tells us to act only on that maxim which we can will as a law for all rational beings.

I have no opinion.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

I am interested in everything,' interrupted Gumbril Junior. 'Which comes to the same thing,' said his father parenthetically, 'as being interested in nothing.

Liberation from prevailing conventions of thought, feeling and behaviour is accomplished most effectively by the practice of disinterested virtues and through direct insight into the real nature of ultimate reality. (Such insight is a gift, inherent in the individual; but, though inherent, it can not manifest itself completely except where certain conditions are fulfilled. The principle pre-condition of insight is, precisely, the practice of disinterested virtues.)

Love is a mode of knowledge, and when the love is sufficiently disinterested and sufficiently intense, the knowledge becomes unitive knowledge and so takes on the quality of infallibility.

there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking — and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? — glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

She was not an affectionate child and had never cared much for any one

I am a more disinterested Ginsberg admirer than Eddie is. Eddie, so to speak, comes to the table with a croupier's rake. He works for the house. He skims from poetry.

I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The mathematical method is disinterested in the efficient cause and the final cause or the goodness of a thing and it should not be so disinterested.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn! (Rhett Butler)

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

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.

Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

My dear, I don't give a damn.

In the equal light of disinterested scrutiny such things are not themselves. They are transformed into pure object, and are horrible, and must be burned.

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.

At first, when I received the script for the 'Archie' show, I was immediately turned off.

If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.