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193 Our Sense quotes by 165 unique authors
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
— Bertrand Russell
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Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.
— Anne Lamott
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Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;…
— Salman Rushdie
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I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of…
— Michael Jackson
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They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only…
— Ronald Reagan
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We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our…
— Julia Cameron
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If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must be habit that…
— Thomas Mann
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is…
— W G Sebald
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The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not…
— John Fowles
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I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to…
— Neil Postman
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Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth…
— Dean Koontz
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This isn't animal experimentation, where you an imagine some proportionate good at the other end of the suffering. This is what we feel like eating.…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
— Isabel Allende
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Given the scale of life in the cosmos, one human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a just…
— Dalai Lama
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Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our…
— Brené Brown
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which…
— Alain de Botton
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At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
— Dante Alighieri
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When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that we are enough…
— Brené Brown
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This is how we came by our factions: Candor, Erudite, Amity, Abnegation and Dauntless." Max smiles. "In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors…
— Veronica Roth
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It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.
— Evelyn Underhill
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Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should…
— John Berger
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount…
— Martin Jacques
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Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.
— John Updike
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
— Natalie Dormer
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