Quotes About Sensibility

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

I had not only to contend against my own sensibility, but against yours also._The fire which is pent up burns the fiercest!

Good luck. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe the whole of life depended not on how hard you tried, how determined you were, how sensible, how smart: maybe the whole shooting match depended on luck.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.-

Penelope was in favor of new experiences, as long as they did not upset the digestion

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

In this life, she clearly had no taste. But since when did taste have anything to do with happiness.

_ the psychology of which I speak is transcendental, and throws light on the direct relationship that exists between soul and soul, and on the sensibility as well as the extraordinary presence of the soul.

Animality is the logos of the sensible world: an incorporated meaning.

The first word...translates an affective state.

The sensible order is being at a distance--the fulgurating attestation here and now to an inexhaustible richness.

This modern craze for biographical information leaves me cold for many reasons. For one thing, it's always inaccurate; for another, it's so bound up with publicity and other varieties of idiocy that it gags a person of any sensibility. For another, to be heralded is to become a candidate for the newest list of "the busted geniuses of yester-year" of whom I hope never to be one.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

I'm not pining for nostalgia back in the '50s and '60s, that isn't it. But that sensibility about how we were grounded here is so important. For instance, another American that was born in Waterloo was John Wayne. We were a very patriotic "yay rah rah America" city and nation and I think that's what America's looking for again.

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.

We can walk our road together if our goals are all the same. We can run alone and free if we pursue a different aim. Let the truth of Love be lighted. Let the love of truth shine clear. Sensibility armed with sense and liberty with the Heart and Mind united in a single perfect sphere.

although culture is a creation of speech, it is recreated anew by every medium of communication—from painting to hieroglyphs to the alphabet to television. Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility.

No, you cannot know this intellectually, you cannot debate it, you cannot substantiate it. You can only feel it. You can only be aware of it.

Contemporary literature, in each and every epoch, is the worst enemy of culture. A reader's limited time is wasted in reading a thousand books that blunt his critical sense and damage his literary sensibility. (I, 258)

Adapting to the modern world demands the hardening of one's sensibility and the debasing of one's character.

The technification of the world blunts one's sensibility and does not refine one's senses.