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Sense Quotes by Susan Sontag
- That even an apocalypse can be made to seem part of the ordinary horizon of expectation constitutes an unparalleled violence that is being done to…
- Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads…
- Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the…
- Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense…
- Sight is a promiscuous sense. The avid gaze always wants more.
- Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The…
- To camp is a mode of seduction... Behind the 'straight' public sense in which something can be taken, one has found a private zany experience…
- For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the…
- Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
- A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the…
- The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way…
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- 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