Quotes About Sentiments

Strange things our parents give us that we cannot give away or put on a shelf.

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions. If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority, and it shields the country from international opprobrium even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.

I have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.

People got opinions, that's all they've got.

The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence. --February 22, 1861

This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

The man who indulges us in this natural passion, who invites us into his heart, who, as it were, sets open the gates of his breast to us, seems to exercise a species of hospitality more delightful than any other. No man, who is in ordinary good temper, can fail of pleasing, if he has the courage to utter his real sentiments as he feels them, and because he feels them.

of their passions in the same object at that particular time.

to feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despite, or, at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

Though you have a fine mind and a subtle intellect, the sentiments you express not only expose your ignorance, they also wound my heart.

When two people part it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.

The sentence I most sympathized with is 'Whatever hangups this indicated, I'd preferred men who seemed perfectly ordinary' - my sentiments, precisely, about life in general which I don't like to see pushed to fanciful extremes because it's good enough as it is.

Ora capisci che cos'è la neutralità che tanto ti sconvolge? Essere neutrali non significa essere indifferenti e insensibili. Non bisogna uccidere i sentimenti dentro di sé. È sufficiente annientare l'odio.

Un orrore morale tale da pervadere visibilmente i lineamenti! Non si era mai visto nulla di simile. Eravamo piuttosto sorprese, e ci sentimmo persino scorrette, come se noi vivessimo in un crepuscolo etico, in un pidocchioso mondo di compromessi, menzogne, giochi di prestigio applicati ai sentimenti. E così era, credo. La chiamavamo "Vita".

All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.

Except that, almost against his will, he did care about Robin. He felt familiar stirrings of a desire to make her happy that irked him . . .

The truth is I am an unlucky honest man that speaks my sentiments to all and with emphasis.