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“The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.”

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Author:Richard Gere

“The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.”

Age Mankind Century Honesty Intellectual Hopeful This Day Thinker Episodes Gifted Parallels Disinterested Lucidity Disinterested Love

Book:The Power of Ideas

Source: The Power of Ideas

“Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.”

People Doe Faith Quality Enemy Sake Worthy Distinction Unworthy Disinterested Loving Others Friends And Enemies Agape Disinterested Love

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.”

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Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.”

Source: THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN

“Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.”

Love Real Friendship Friends Slave Tyrants Commerce Real Friends Intercourse Stoops Disinterested Lasting Friendship Disinterest Disinterested Love

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.”

Giving May Form Passion Sorrow Activity Various Ecstasy Enthusiastic Disinterested Great Passion Disinterest Disinterested Love

Book:The Renaissance

Source: The Renaissance