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Letter "S" » sensibility
«We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.»
«Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.»
«The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Crime,
Self-esteem,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
arise, crimes, indulgence, indulgences, sensibilities, sensibility
«What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
distinguishes, industry, sensibilities, sensibility, tenderness
«When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspiration, damaged, due, due to, negligence, not due, privation, privations, sacrilege, sensibilities, sensibility, suffers, wound
«The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
indicated, indicates, insensibility, inversion, sensibilities, sensibility, trifled, trifles
«The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Passion
| Keywords:
profoundest, publishes, sensibility, sleeps
«There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
concrete, contemptible, dreamer, manly, nerveless, sensibility, sentimentalist, sentimentalists, spends, welter, weltering
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