As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or energy. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.


p. 33 ; reported in: S. Austin Allibone, Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. - Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical (1857)

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As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or ...

As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or ...

As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or ...

As the passions are the springs of most of our actions, a state of apathy has come to signify a sort of moral inertia, the absence of all activity or ...