Definition of Detachment

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Detachment

The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.

That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.

Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.

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Detachment Quotations

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.
Meister Eckhart

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

The essence of the Way is detachment.
Bodhidharma

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.
Salvatore Quasimodo

The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
Victor Garber

What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.
Satyajit Ray

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
John Desmond Bernal

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
Sam Snead

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.
Allen Tate

Detachment Translations

detachment in Dutch is detachement, team, afdeling
detachment in German is Abteilung {f}
detachment in Italian is compartimento
detachment in Portuguese is destacamento
detachment in Swedish is avskiljande, avskildhet

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