Quotes about Sense

Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury—inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.

The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense, whereas reality never makes sense.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.

A delightful sense of being very young and free in a civilization that was very old and free.

Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —FROM "THE SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe.

Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments.

I can discover within me no power of perception which is not glutted with its proper pleasure, yet I do not feel myself delighted. Man has surely some latent sense for which this place affords no gratification, or he has some desires distinct from sense which must be satisfied before he can be happy.

From the perpetual necessity of consulting the animal faculties, in our provision for the present life, arises the difficulty of withstanding their impulses, even in cases where they ought to be of no weight; for the motions of sense are instantaneous, its objects strike unsought, we are accustomed to follow its directions, and therefore often submit to the sentence without examining the authority of the judge.