Quotes About Sense

The poem: a prolonged hesitation between sound and sense.

The poem seemed to be about how naturally dignified animals are and how their lives make more sense than those of humans, which are cluttered with greed and self-pity and talk of a distant God.

Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.

Así descubría la virtud paradójica de la lectura que consiste en abstraernos del mundo para hallarle un sentido

Look," says the Puritan preacher, the doctrine is "as in nature, reason teacheth and experience evidenceth"; to deny it "is to go against the experience of all ages, the common sense of all men.

The interest we have in problems is so intense that at some point we take our identity from those problems. Without them, it seems like we would not know who we are as a community. Many of the strongest advocates for change would lose their sense of identity if the change they desired ever occurred.

According to Damasio, the core self is the foundation of consciousness, and the autobiographical self is its glory

pervasive sense of crisis that fostered support for extremist positions and simplifying explanations.

But more than that was the strangeness she felt here, the deep, unscratchable itch, the nagging wrongness written into her bones. It was as though there had been a compass in her, hidden and unknown yet totally fundamental to her sense of the world, and now that compass no longer had a north to point at.

La incapacidad de relativizar el sentido común cuando abordamos la Biblia tiene efectos perniciosos en la teología y, por ende, en la vida eclesial y en la evangelización.

“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.