“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.”
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 82.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self." by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach?
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 81
Austrian writer 1830–1916Related quotes
Matthew Arnold
(1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
Wordsworth, originally published as "Preface to the Poems of Wordsworth" in Macmillan's Magazine (July 1879)
Essays in Criticism, second series (1888)
Context: If what distinguishes the greatest poets is their powerful and profound application of ideas to life, which surely no good critic will deny, then to prefix to the word ideas here the term moral makes hardly any difference, because human life itself is in so preponderating a degree moral.
It is important, therefore, to hold fast to this: that poetry is at bottom a criticism of life; that the greatness of a poet lies in his powerful and beautiful application of ideas to life — to the question, How to live. Morals are often treated in a narrow and false fashion, they are bound up with systems of thought and belief which have had their day, they are fallen into the hands of pedants and professional dealers, they grow tiresome to some of us. We find attraction, at times, even in a poetry of revolt against them; in a poetry which might take for its motto Omar Khayam's words: "Let us make up in the tavern for the time which we have wasted in the mosque." Or we find attractions in a poetry indifferent to them, in a poetry where the contents may be what they will, but where the form is studied and exquisite. We delude ourselves in either case; and the best cure for our delusion is to let our minds rest upon that great and inexhaustible word life, until we learn to enter into its meaning. A poetry of revolt against moral ideas is a poetry of revolt against life; a poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is a poetry of indifference towards life.
Elie Wiesel
(1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
US News & World Report (27 October 1986)
Patañjali
(-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
§ 1.33
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty speech
Context: Continued unrestricted testing by the nuclear powers, joined in time by other nations which may be less adept in limiting pollution, will increasingly contaminate the air that all of us must breathe. Even then, the number of children and grandchildren with cancer in their bones, with leukemia in their blood, or with poison in their lungs might seem statistically small to some, in comparison with natural health hazards. But this is not a natural health hazard — and it is not a statistical issue. The loss of even one human life, or the malformation of even one baby — who may be born long after we are gone — should be of concern to us all. Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics toward which we can be indifferent.
“[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.”
"A Devil's Chaplain"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
Patañjali
(-200–-150 BC) ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises
Patanjali, in Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AEo58-ihNygC&pg=PA205, p. 205.