Don Henley Quotes

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.

You can put me in the basement or the penthouse; it doesn't matter to me.

I don't really care what people do.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Nature is neutral.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

I think most people are indifferent in their evaluation of what is good or bad.

I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.

Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're in a far more complicated world than that. I frankly think that this binary philosophy is actually a dangerous way to look at the world.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don't leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn't have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning.

One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

Australians are decent people with the right instincts and they wish everybody well; but if all is not well, it is none of their business and they will not lose too much sleep over it. The shrug of the shoulders has become - only temporarily, I daresay - the national gesture of Australia.