Source: Men Under Stress, 1945, p. 371
“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”
"A Kind of Survivor".
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
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Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 6
Context: In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned toward conduct, there is nothing which it could not accomplish.

Venom and Eternity (1951), Danielle's Monologue

“Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.”
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 4

Une seule partie de la physique occupe la vie de plusieurs hommes, et les laisse souvent mourir dans l'incertitude.
"A Madame la Marquise du Châtelet, Avant-Propos," Eléments de Philosophie de Newton (1738)
Citas

“Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.”
Vol. 2 "On Women" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. J. Hollingdale
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims