Quotes About Sense

It should not be understood in a quantitative, but in a qualitative sense; it qualifies all the communicable attributes of God.

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

Unaccustomed sense of peace did not depend on...'the whim of any fallible creature, or...economic security, or the weather. I don't know where it comes from. Jung states that such serenity is always a miracle...I am so glad that the therapists of my maturity and the saints of my childhood agree on one thing.

I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you don't have to make any sense at all. Or maybe I'll be a bloke, they don't have to make sense either.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

children when they ask you why is your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

T]he effect of the creation, all its majesty for the feelings and the imagination, is quite lost if the production of the world … is not taken in its real sense.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

Why in God's name would you call a priest in your school a penis? How could he possibly be a penis? A man can't be a penis; he can only be a man. This makes no sense to me at all.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who didn't believe in violence, He's a good man... and dead.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

I do not feel an exile from America in any sense.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

It's very important to say that what I mean when I say 'liberal' is liberal in the 19th-century British sense. Pro-market, pro-individual, freedom, pro-openness. Not the American sense.

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Liverpool and London are two places I looked upon as home.