Sensibility Quotes - Page 8

• In a Union of 15 now, you must take into account the sensibilities of everyone.

  Jacques Santer

  Unions, Accounts

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• No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

  E. O. Wilson

  Hunters, World, Poet

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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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• Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?

  Talal Asad

  Names, Democracy, Doe

  Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood (2013). “Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech”, p.10

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• By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

  Benjamin Rush

  Children, Mean, Mind

  Benjamin Rush (1988). “Essays: Literary, Moral and Philosophical”, Union College

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• An artist, in my experience, is a man or woman of unusual talent and peculiar, highly individual sensibility, with an independent and probably contrary mind, driven by mysterious passions for which another word is neurosis. In getting from point A to point B, the neurotic goes via point Q. It's in that roundabout that people are either completely crippled and hopeless in life, or highly creative.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Passion, Independent, Artist

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• The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another.

  George Eliot

  Mother, Moving, Animal

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.15

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• Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Acoustics, Ancient, Awareness

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". p. 225. Book by Marshall McLuhan and Eric McLuhan, 1988.

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• It is the man and woman united that makes the complete human being. Separate she lacks his force of body and strength of reason; he her softness, sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the world.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, World

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• When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

  Leonard Maltin

  Sentimental, Santa, Kind

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• Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only at the very end of this volume, in conjunction with her finding and marrying her husband of 30 years, Ron Weldon. In this sense, it is half a memoir, the private background story to the public future. (...) The reader is forced to re-evaluate the spectacular weirdness of Weldon's fiction: having lived such a life any other kind would seem insipid.

  Joanna Murray-Smith

  Husband, Years, Creative

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• As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Expression, Might, Doe

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• Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need. She will care for us, protect us, and nurture us, as long as we do the same for her. For that to happen, we must slow down and heighten our sensibilities. We must see the connection to all things. Just as the turtle cannot separate itself from its shell, neither can we separate ourselves from what we do to the Earth.

  Ted Andrews

  Mother, Turtles, Long

  Ted Andrews (2010). “Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small”, p.309, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Nails, Polish, Remove

  "British Writer Denied Entry to US" by Jill Lawless, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2008.

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• The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.

  Jan Morris

  Country, Hate, Past

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• When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time past, one's sensibility, being no longer dulled by habit, receives from the slightest stimulus vivid impressions which make everything that has preceded them fade into insignificance, impressions to which, because of their intensity, we attach ourselves with the momentary enthusiasm of a drunkard.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Self, Different

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.537, Modern Library

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• It takes intelligence and training, self-discipline and fine-sensibility, to gain renewed life through leisure occupation. America now suffers spiritual poverty, and art must become more fully American life before her leisure can become culture.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Art, Self

  "Search for the Real: And Other Essays". Book by Hans Hofmann. "Painting and Culture", p. 56, 1948.

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• If an art has for its function to represent manners and people, I do not see how it can avoid systematizing its sensibility to the extent of showing some figures much as Molière, for instance, did, as absurd or detestable.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, People, Manners

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.38, Ardent Media

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• How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Giving, Receiving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1910). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Real, Men, Knowing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Ambition, Bridges, Way

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• Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life.

  Douglas Portway

  Artist, Expectations, Flow

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• In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

  Luigi Russolo

  Men, Silence, Triumph

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• Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.

  Scott Kahn

  Artist, Expression, Color

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• in Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.

  Jean Simmons

  Beautiful, Divorce, Style

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