339 Quotes About Sense

Religion without sense is like a car with no wheels. You can be in it, but it won’t take you anywhere. We must be logical and good-natured if we want it to take us places for the greater good.

Reason and understanding are represented as the voluntary slaves of the senses.

[...] benché in genere bastino pochissime ore trascorse nella fatica di parlare incessantemente a esaurire molti più argomenti di quanti possano avere davvero in comune due creature raziocinanti, con gli innamorati è diverso. Tra loro nessun argomento è mai finito, niente è davvero detto che non sia ripetuto almeno una ventina di volte.

Not everything has to make sense, to make sense.

أي شيء في الحياة لا معنى له إلا المعنى الذي تعطيه له

Our ‘learned instinct’ is also called ‘consciousness’, ‘voice of conscience’, ‘inner voice’ or the ‘voice of the soul’ or simply ‘common sense’. Our conscience is thus not a mystical entity, but something which is developed due to the environment of our upbringing.

If you can sense the God in you, you can sense God everywhere

Keep writing.One day it will all make sense.

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. What is encountered may be Socrates, a temple or a demon. It may be grasped in a range of affective tones: wonder, love, hatred, suffering. In whichever tone, its primary characteristic is that it can only be sensed. In this sense it is opposed to recognition.