Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

The idea of 'machine assemblage' is, especially, very alien to my sensibility, since it suggests a relative indifference of the strata to one another during the process of construction.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

Treat Death as it treats us: with utter indifference.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.

Politeness is organized indifference.

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.