Sense Quotes - page 22

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. (Alexander Pope)
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. View quote
Alexander Pope
Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, transcendent being). But the church is no longer adequate as a means of affording experience of the transcendental, and of making religion real – and so art has been transformed from a means into the sole provider of religion: which means religion itself. View quote
Gerhard Richter
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality. View quote
Max Beckmann
A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security. View quote
Jimmy Page
Common sense is in medicine the master workman. View quote
Peter Mere Latham
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. View quote
Edmund Burke
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, "You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, "The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity' as if it were a number. It's not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?' I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,' ‘truth,' ‘beauty'-those are not numbers.”. View quote
John Derbyshire
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand. (Wallace Stevens)
A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion finds the thought and the thought finds the words. View quote
Robert Frost
Before my encounter with Thomist philosophy through Maritain, I had almost reached the same conclusions through the logical development of my work, intuition and thought, but what a great sense of joy I felt upon discovering, in Maritain, the confirmation of certain thought patterns, certain ways of clarifying these to myself and to others. View quote
Gino Severini
Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities. View quote
Hans Reichenbach
She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. View quote
Henry James
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument. View quote
Henry James
I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. View quote
Ben Kingsley
I think about the personal accomplishment, but there's more of a sense of the grand achievement by all the people who could put this man on the moon. View quote
Alan Shepard
There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other. View quote
John Bright
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. View quote
William Carlos Williams
The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment. (Norbert Wiener)
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged. View quote
W. H. Auden
I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it. View quote
Kristen Bell
We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense. View quote
Roland Barthes
the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'. View quote
John Ruskin