Quotes about Sense, page 5

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

Quote by Walter Pater about sense

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

Quote by Walter Pater about sense

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Quote by Walter Pater about sense

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Quote by Walter Pater about sense

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about sense

Whatever it is that leads men to fight and suffer, to face mutilation and death, the motive is not now self-interest in any material sense.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about sense

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.

Quote by Simon Pegg about sense

I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Quote by Simon Pegg about sense

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about sense

Love grows, lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

Quote by William Penn about sense

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Quote by William Penn about sense

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Quote by Roger Penrose about sense

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

Quote by Piper Perabo about sense

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot, there is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about sense

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about sense

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Quote by Martin Luther King Jr. about sense

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about sense

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson about sense

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Quote by Erich Fromm about sense

Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about sense