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Sense Quotes by Rollo May
- Beauty is the experience that gives us a sense of joy and a sense of peace simultaneously.
- The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry…
- Heroes are necessary in order to enable the citizens to find their own ideals, courage and wisdom in the society. The hero carries our hopes,…
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence. Whether the meaning…
- There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the…
- It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense…
- A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
- Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory…
- Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.
- When I fall in love, I feel more valuable and I treat myself with more care. We have all observed the hesitant adolescent, uncertain of…
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- 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