„Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.“
— Iris Murdoch, buch The Book and the Brotherhood
The Book and the Brotherhood (1987) p. 248.
„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“
"On Relativism" (1925)
Kontext: Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere. 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 … Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge... One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.
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— Sherwood Smith American fantasy and science fiction writer 1951
— Baruch Spinoza Dutch philosopher 1632 - 1677
Letter to Hugo Boxel (Oct. 1674) The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza https://books.google.com/books?id=Nz1kRKDMbUMC (1891) Tr. R. H. M. Elwes, Vol. 2, Letter 58 (54).
Kontext: This impels me, before going into your reasons, to set forth briefly my opinion on the question, whether the world was made by chance. But I answer, that as it is clear that chance and necessity are two contraries, so is it also clear, that he, who asserts the world to be a necessary effect of the divine nature, must utterly deny that the world has been made by chance; whereas, he who affirms that God need not have made the world, confirms, though in different language, the doctrine that it has been made by chance; inasmuch as he maintains that it proceeds from a wish, which might never have been formed. However, as this opinion and theory is on the face of it absurd, it is commonly very unanimously admitted, that God's will is eternal, and has never been indifferent; hence... the world is a necessary effect of the divine nature. Let them call it will, understanding, or any name they like, they come at last to the same conclusion, that under different names they are expressing one and the same thing. If you ask them, whether the divine will does not differ from the human, they answer, that the former has nothing in common with the latter except its name; especially as they generally admit that God's will, understanding, intellect, essence, and nature are all identical; so I... lest I... confound the divine nature with the human, do not assign to God human attributes, such as will, understanding, attention, hearing, &c. I therefore say, as I have said already, that the world is a necessary effect of the divine nature, and that it has not been made by chance. I think this is enough to persuade you, that the opinion of those (if such there be) who say that the world has been made by chance, is entirely contrary to mine; and relying on this hypothesis, I proceed to examine those reasons which lead you to infer the existence of all kinds of ghosts.<!--pp. 381-382
„Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?"
- Elizabeth Bennet“
— Jane Austen English novelist 1775 - 1817
„Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one’s self.“
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916
Quelle: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 82.
— Iris Murdoch British writer and philosopher 1919 - 1999
— Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016
US News & World Report (27 October 1986)
— Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) Scottish publisher and writer 1802 - 1871
Quelle: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 17
„unconcerned but not indifferent“
— Man Ray American artist and photographer 1890 - 1976
His epitaph, chosen by his widow, Juliet Browner Man Ray, because they were words he'd often said of himself. Quoted in "Man Ray : Master of Imagery; Pioneer Artist and Photographer" by Max Perchick , in PSA Journal (1 May 1991) http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-10728732.html
— Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz Mexican Roman Catholic bishop 1951
Quelle: Corrupt policemen and climate of mistrust, the Bishop of La Paz denounces the silence of the authorities http://fides.org/en/news/36508-AMERICA_MEXICO_Corrupt_policemen_and_climate_of_mistrust_the_Bishop_of_La_Paz_denounces_the_silence_of_the_authorities (9 October 2014)
„You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.“
— Oscar Wilde, buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
„Politeness is organized indifference.“
— Paul Valéry French poet, essayist, and philosopher 1871 - 1945
Tel Quel (1943)
„The tragedy of love is indifference.“
— W. Somerset Maugham British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874 - 1965
The Trembling of a Leaf, ch. 4
„Full of a sweet indifference.“
— Robert Williams Buchanan Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist 1841 - 1901
Charmian.
