Quotes About Sensible

When Gestalt theory tells us that a figure against a background is the most basic sensible given we can have, this is not a contingent characteristic of factual perception...Rather, this is the very definition of the perceptual phenomenon, or that without which a phenomenon cannot be called perception. The perceptual "something" is always in the middle of some other thing, it always belongs to a "field.

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Oh, please, Mr. B thinks, not a human. Not another human. He is filled with despair. God's passion for humans always leads to catastrophe, to meteorological upset on an epic scale. What is wrong with the boy that he can't get it up for some nice goddess? Why, oh why, can't he pursue a sensible relationship, one that will not end in disaster?

Bridget has vowed to never, ever date a celebrity (or quasi-celebrity) again. "Unless it's, like, James Dean back from the dead," she says. "Well, that's sensible," I say.

Bridget has vowed to never, ever date a celebrity (or quasi-celebrity) again. 'Unless it's, like, James Dean back from the dead,' she says. 'Well, that's sensible,' I say.

It was strange to have his parents needing something from him. Something this big. In the past, they needed silence from him if he was making a racket. They needed him to apply himself. "I need you to be sensible, Tom." But not this need. Not the need to make everything right.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.

Another way of putting this point is to say that morality is not empirical. It stands at a certain distance from the world. It passes judgment on the world. Science can't, for all its power and insight, reach moral questions, because it operates within the sensible realm.

El amor es el ritmo. La ciencia del ritmo son las matemáticas; la expresión sensible del amor es la música. La expresión, no su realización; entendámonos.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Una palabra serena a un hombre sensato vale más que un año de súplicas a un tonto.

Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Arry thought her mind must be tired. It would not, in a sensible fashion, lie down and rest.

I have nothing but nonsense for you. Be warned. I intend to burden you with it in painful detail, for otherwise it will buzz around inside my head for days. I know you are much too sensible to permit anything so foolish to buzz around inside your head for even five minutes, so I look forward to hearing your opinion of the matter.

The next move was my first independent act and, as it turned out - with a run of luck - the first sensible one.

I don't doubt the process started sensibly.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Bertrand Russell, "The fact that an opinion is widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."80

After having much praised or much blamed anybody, one is generally sensible of something just the reverse soon afterwards.

Oh, Rabbit, no. Not that. I only want to be sensible and listen to myself." "Enjoy yourself, then," he said flatly. "I've heard enough." He went off to bed, slamming the door as he entered our room.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.