Sensibility Quotes - Page 6

• They went inside. The young ones shuffled to a stop as their ironic sensibilities, which served them in lieu of souls, were jammed by a signal of overwhelming power.

  Neal Stephenson

  Soul, Ironic, Signals

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Men, Profound

  Oliver Sacks (1998). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Self, Self Respect

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.107, Modern Library

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• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Garden, Self

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Significant Things, House

  Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

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• Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Needs, Intellect, Organs

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• The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise of judgement, sensibility, and skill. The romanticist cannot be satisfied with such a normal standard; for him art is essentially irrational - an experience beyond normality, sometimes destructive of normality, and at the very least evocative of that state of wonder which is the state of mind induced by the immediately inexplicable.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Exercise, Skills

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• Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for up-sized art and more of it... Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast. Bigness is not all bad. There's something pleasing about large, well-lit spaces. But the bigness has also led to a narrowing of sensibilities, by making it very hard for any but the glitziest works to get traction.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Order, Wind

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• An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Artist, Order, Criticism

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• When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.

  Barbara Crampton

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region.  I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.

  Heinz Fischer

  Believe, Israel, Years

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Men, Animal

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• An American soldier, Saddam in his sights, has a picture of a naked, buxom woman on his dashboard, an obvious affront to Muslim sensibilities.

  Margo Kingston

  Sight, Soldier, Dashboards

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• Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Chinese, Purpose, Architecture

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• What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters into and out of one another's lives. What might have been a jumble of intellectual movements and colorful minor figures (...) is instead a subtle weave of entertaining narrative and astute interpretation.

  George Scialabba

  Moving, Character, Ideas

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• How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Sea, Sorrow

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1956). “Collected Letters: 1820-1825”

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• These days movies are cut very quickly and sort of fragmented and I tend to do slower moving stories where people develop relationships with people. I think I'd probably do a lot better if I lived in Europe - I think it's more of a European sensibility somehow.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Moving, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Very handsome women have usually far less sensibility to compliments than their less beautiful sisters.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beautiful, Women, Handsome

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• When the soul is solidly rooted in... peacefulness, when it is freed of the bonds of every carnal urge, when the unshaking thrust of the heart is toward the one supreme Good, then the words of the apostle will be fulfilled. 'Pray without ceasing,' he said (I Thes. 5:17). 'In every place lift up pure hands, with no anger and no rivalry' (I Tim 2:8). Sensibility is, so to speak, absorbed by this purity. It is reshaped in the likeness of the spiritual and the angelic so that all its dealings, all its activity will be prayer, utterly pure, utterly without tarnish.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

  Amanda Palmer

  People, Challenges, Dresses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no reason for doubt-filled pessimism, for the Wihinei of the Aryo-Germanics is too deep - even if unconscious and latent - rooted in every Aryo-Germanic soul and it awaits onl the call to awaken which will and must catch fire in order to instill the flame of inspiration in the Aryo-Germanic sensibility.

  Guido von List

  Inspiration, Twilight, Dark

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• Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

  Samuel Johnson

  Littles, Feels, Ostentatious

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.429

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• But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

  Jane Goodall

  Compassion, Order, Heritage

  Jane Goodall (2010). “Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, May, Want

  Anna Brownell Jameson (2009). “Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada”, p.201, New Canadian Library

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• When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.

  Bernard Arnault

  Creative, Sides, Management

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