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disinterested
«To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
disinterested, renunciation
«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 lessons as often as we please»
Author: Robert Chambers
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
counselors, disinterested, instructors, lessons, oral, preachers
«A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Action,
Thinking,
Truth
| Keywords:
disinterested, enslave, extraordinarily, inconvenienced, liking, lively, persistent, troubled
«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 needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Humanity,
Needs
| Keywords:
captivate, captivated, captivates, captivating, disinterested, dreamers, enterprise, forgetting, general interest, practical, safeguard, Tha, The General
«Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
abject, commerce, disinterested, equals, intercourse, slaves, tyrants
«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 pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much trouble to themselves. They are not disinterested, but they are gentle.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
disinterested, Human sacrifice, inflict, relieve
«I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
disinterested, endeavour, propagated, propagates, propagating