»But is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands ›interest‹?
Interest, interesse, means to be among and in the midst of things, or to be at the center of a thing and to stay with it. But today's interest accepts as valid only what is interesting. And interesting is the sort of thing that can freely be regarded as indifferent the next moment, and be displaced by something else, which then concerns us just as little as what went before. Many people today take the view that they are doing great honor to something by finding it interesting. The truth is that such an opinion has already relegated the interesting thing to the ranks of what is indifferent and soon boring.«

(Martin Heidegger, from: ›What is Called Thinking?‹; a translation of ›Was heißt Denken?‹ (1952) by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray, published in 1968)