Indifferent Quotes - Page 15

• Nature is monumentally indifferent.

  Werner Herzog

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• For many years, I have kept in my office an ink drawing of two smiling figures with their arms around each other: Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha, with the caption: "Jesus and Buddha must be very good friends." They are not the same, but they are friends, not enemies, and they are not indifferent to one another.

  Tilden Edwards

  Jesus, Good Friend, Two

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• Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

  Edward Gibbon

  House, Inns, Masters

  Edward Gibbon (2017). “Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)”, p.4, Litres

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• K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The "savageness" is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

  Ed Viesturs

  Rocks, Ice, Snow

  Ed Viesturs, David Roberts (2009). “K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain”, p.310, Broadway Books

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• Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control.

  Earl Nightingale

  Vehicle, Humans, Human Beings

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• People in the upper classes can just as easily be indifferent to their own body, or treat themselves as badly, as people who don't have the money. There are always differences among differences.

  Lynne Tillman

  Class, Differences, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

  W. S. Merwin

  Hard Times, Rest Of Life, Tolls

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

  W. S. Merwin

  Thinking, Order, Joy

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureat". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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• The universe couldn't care less about us. I say this very clearly in the film [ "Into the Inferno"]: our planet is "indifferent to scurrying roaches, retarded reptiles and vapid humans alike."

  Werner Herzog

  Vapid, Roaches, Reptiles

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Beings who are born not only unaware of, but quite indifferent to, the aims and habits of the social group have to be rendered cognizant of them and actively interested. Education, and education alone, spans the gap.

  John Dewey

  Groups, Gaps, Habit

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Change, Reality, Climate

  Pope Benedict XVI (2014). “The Garden of God”, p.41, CUA Press

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• You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

  Sue Grafton

  Hate, People, Rage

  Sue Grafton (2012). “Kinsey Millhone: First Three Novels”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material, doing as Christ said. He went and sat down with the rich and Zachaeus and publicans and sinners.

  Dorothy Day

  Mean, Bags, Poverty

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• You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Stress, Emotional, Meditation

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.

  Laurence Sterne

  Life, Change, Giving

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent., Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Sermons, Letters, &c. With a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.108

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• Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

  David Hume

  Truth, Passion, Ideas

  David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2007). “A Dissertation on the Passions: The Natural History of Religion : a Critical Edition”, p.24, Oxford University Press

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• It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Faith, Knowledge, Historical

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• If anyone proposes to believe, i.e., imagines himself to believe, because many good and upright people living here on the hill have believed, i.e., have said that they believedthen he is a fool, and it is essentially indifferent whether he believes on account of his own and perhaps a widely held opinion about what good and upright people believe, or believes a Münchhausen.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Believe, People, Fool

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• As Nature is always careless and indifferent
  Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

  Stevie Smith

  Beauty, Nature, Mean

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. This is what the West has done with its colonial system. It shook all the societies in the world loose from their old moorings. But it seems indifferent whether or not they reach safe harbour in the end.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Important, West, Done

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• Be close enough to people so that you are indifferent to the material. And also have faith.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Have Faith, Enough

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• Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Limits, Exceed, Misfortunes

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• Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

  Richard Dawkins

  Suffering, Atheism, Kind

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.

  Osamu Dazai

  Pain, Liars, Writing

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• It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.

  Alain Ducasse

  Challenges, Intellectual, Sensual

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