Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Detachment is the beginning of mastery."
Detachment quotes
Detachment
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."
Ray Bradbury
Author
"How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?"
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement."
Allen Tate
Poet, Critic
"Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment."
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"If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment."
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"Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it."
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"The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God."
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"Compassion without detachment is attachment to the bodily platform."
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"What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost."
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