339 Quotes About Sense

It was about then that I realized I was an extraordinarily complex person, because my logic typically made no sense.

You’ve always lived inside me, but I only realised it after I’ve met you. In order to love, you don’t need to find someone in the outer world. Rather, you need to sense what mental image is always in your inner world. Love is the projection of this subjective mental image into someone outside.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Where was the judge he had never seen? Where was the High Court he had never reached? He raised his hands and spread out all his fingers. But the hands of one of the men closed round his throat, just as the other drove the knife deep into his heart and turned it twice.

Sometimes a sense should be added to the most senseless conversation to make it sensible for the involved parties to sense something profitable in return.

Mwenye hekima huzungumza kilicho na maana! Kinaweza kuwa kizuri au kibaya.

If you should find yourself getting hit hard with the truth, at least let it knock some sense into you.

And we have seen how Rousseau’s insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child for a world that does not.

The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a mark of fundamentalism, whether of religious or market variety. In a child, such moments are appealing, necessary and usually harmless.

A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.