Best Our Sense Quotations
193 Our Sense quotes by 165 unique authors
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To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it…
— Sonia Choquette
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The more closely we analyze what we consider 'sexy,' the more clearly we will understand that eroticism is the feeling of excitement we experience at…
— Alain de Botton
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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
— Alice Meynell
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You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.
— Alan Rudolph
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Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our…
— Barack Obama
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We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power must…
— Donald Worster
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Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend…
— Joyce Appleby
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The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not…
— Joseph Conrad
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If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack…
— Alain de Botton
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Developing concern for others, thinking of them as part of us, brings self-confidence , reduces our sense of suspicion and mistrust, and enables us to…
— Dalai Lama
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This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that…
— Dean Koontz
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The moment somebody's a president and you call him "Mr. President," (the person represents) our culture, our history, our sense as our nation.
— Rahm Emanuel
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For what pleasure can compare the pleasure of bringing joy and hope to other hearts. The more we make others happy the greater will be…
— Shoghi Effendi
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God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well being. Only He is equipped to provide that.
— Lysa TerKeurst
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Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.
— Mark Matousek
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Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession…
— Julian Jaynes
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Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
— Eric Hoffer
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If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience…
— Daniel Dennett
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The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the traditional focus of…
— Eugene Schwartz
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I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to…
— Matthew McConaughey
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Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.
— Trey Parker
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Whatsoever accidents Or qualities our sense make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The…
— Thomas Hobbes
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