Quotes About Sensibility

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.

Elle [Catherine de Mainau] avait, dit-on, inspiré des passions très vives ; elle en avait ressenti ; elle avait eu des peines, qu'elle n'avais pas longtemps portées. Il en était de ses chagrins, je suppose, comme de ses robes de bal, qu'elle ne mettait qu'une fois. Mais elle les gardait toutes ; elle avait, ainsi, des armoires de souvenirs. Vous disiez, mon amie, que la princesse Catherine avait une âme de dentelle. (p. 86-87)

O conhecimento tem a ver com a evolução da técnica e das ciências, e a cultura é algo anterior ao conhecimento, uma propensão do espírito, uma sensibilidade e um cultivo da forma que dá sentido e orientação aos conhecimentos.

Mi optimismo se apoya en esta convicción antigramsciana: no es la intelligentsia la que hace la historia. Por lo general, los pueblos —esas mujeres y hombres sin cara y sin nombre, las «gente del común», como los llamaba Montaigne— son mejores que la mayoría de sus intelectuales: más sensatos, más pragmáticos, más democráticos, más libres, a la hora de decidir sobre asuntos sociales y políticos.

Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained.

In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known, they are not necessarily the better for being written down, or publicly announced. Some are, some aren't. As in everything else, good sense, taste, art, all have their place. Saying you prefer to disregard art, taste, good sense, does not mean that those elements do not exist—it merely means you lack them yourself

Which is to say," he continued, "that when I violate the sensibility I have about others and how I should be toward them, I immediately begin to see the world in ways that justify my self-betrayal. In those moments, I am beginning to see and live crookedly, which creates the need within me to be justified.

si el alma se encuentra en todo cuerpo dotado de sensibilidad y si además suponemos que el alma es un cuerpo, necesariamente habrá dos cuerpos en el mismo lugar.

Alg? , Ben için, O'da güdülerin oynad??? role kar??l?k gelir. Tutkular? içinde bar?nd?ran O'nun tersine, Ben ak?l ve saÄŸduyu olarak adland?rd?klar?m?z? temsil eder. Tüm bunlar herkesçe bilinen popüler farklarla örtüÅŸür, ama yaln?zca ortalama ya da ideal durumda doÄŸru olarak kabul edilmelidir." sayfa 49

Si on trouve la plénitude de la joie dans la pensée que Dieu est, il faut trouver la même plénitude dans la connaissance que soi-même on n'est pas, car c'est la même pensée. Et cette connaissance n'est étendue à la sensibilité que par la souffrance et la mort.

When we stop noticing small things, we are no longer truly alive.

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

One of the many marks of a philosophical sensibility is an obsession with problems which most sane people regard as not worth bothering about.

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay.

Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

Words, words, just stupid words. Listen to your body. Listen to your heart.

My geography savors a delicious paradox: Home - a grounding - found in unearthly beauty. The predominant colors are blue, emerald, and terra-cotta. Every day, every season, I taste these colors and the intricate flavors of their unaccountable tones and hues. I have yet to earn this land. Perhaps I never will. Home is a religion. Sensibly you understand the need for it, yet not even sensible people can explain it. - from the Chapter "Finding Home

All the affected airs of sensibility which a woman puts on invariably deceive a lover; and on occasions when a husband shrugs his shoulders, a lover is in ecstasies.

Of course, it's true that sometimes the pink at sunrise somehow seems brighter than the pink at sunset, and that when you're feeling down the the landscape seems darker too - you see things through the filter of your own sensibility. But the things themselves, out there, they don't change. They existed, and that's all there is to it.

I am in general susceptible to style.