, excitement
, motivation
and passion
. An apathetic individual has an absence of interest in or concern about emotional, social, spiritual, philosophical or physical life.
They may lack a sense of purpose or meaning in their life. He or she may also exhibit insensibility or sluggishness. The opposite of apathy is flow
. In positive psychology
, apathy is described as a result of the individual feeling they do not possess the level of skill required to confront a challenge.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is.
Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true— the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
He who has never hoped can never despair.
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.