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Sense Quotes by Pico Iyer
- I take very seriously the sense of our living these days in a global neighborhood. And the first sensible thing to do in such circumstances,…
- Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.
- In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like…
- A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement…
- What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with…
- You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make…
- Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
- What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me…
- In financial terms, my sense is that the distribution of wealth, unequal as it is, is self-perpetuating, and, especially in a linked and accelerating world,…
More Sense Quotes
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree. — Dean Acheson
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden