Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood one common state: The flip side of love is indifference, not hate.

People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.

To be wise was to be above joy and sorrow, fear and pity, ambition and humiliation. It was to hate nothing and to love nothing, and above all to be utterly indifferent to the love and hate of others.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

I'm going to wake up tomorrow and start with not caring how I feel. That's going to feel great.

I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a slight disgust, and a sort of wonder that they presume to write my name.

I can't get mad about peoples' opinions, I always say that. That's their opinion. They got every right to say or think whatever they want to say and think. And whatever they say and think don't affect my life.

Adam didn't look at him when he said, finally, "It doesn't matter how you say it. It's what you wanted, in the end. All your things in one place, all under your roof. Everything you own right where you can see.

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all .

Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever.

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

There are some people who think you have to hate them in order to shoot them. I don't think you do. It's just business.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now.

But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. It lets neglect and decay and monstrous injustice go unchecked. It doesn't act, it allows. And that's what gives it so much power.