Christianity Quote by George Berkeley

Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

— Anonymous

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility…

— Laurence Sterne

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of…

— Jane Addams

We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was…

— John Ruskin

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter;…

— Seneca the Younger

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he…

— Samuel Johnson

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others;…

— Immanuel Kant

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

— Wilfred Owen

As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings…

— Anonymous

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year…

— Eamon de Valera

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of…

— Epictetus