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In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.

— Remy de Gourmont

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

— Elie Wiesel

The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

— Stephen Hawking

What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

— Ovid

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.

— Bliss Carman

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

— Robert Staughton Lynd

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

— Richard Le Gallienne

✗Opposing Perspectives

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

— Galileo Galilei

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

— George Steiner

I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.

— Jean Racine

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

— Arthur Schopenhauer