Sensibility Quotes

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music. (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. View quote
Henry James
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
Edmund Burke
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility. View quote
Samuel Johnson
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility. View quote
Joseph Conrad
I think there is a certain sensibility to someone you are attracted to and when it rubs off that's good. View quote
Michael Hutchence
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility. View quote
Susan Sontag
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. View quote
Wallace Stevens
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. (Alexander Hamilton)
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little. View quote
John Ruskin
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ... View quote
Jane Addams
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
Medieval and ancient sensibility now dominates our time as acoustic and multisensory awareness displaces the merely visual. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. View quote
Robert Delaunay
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. View quote
Salman Rushdie
What is a Poet?...He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to be common among mankind; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him; delighting to contemplate similar volitions and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the Universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them. View quote
William Wordsworth
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study. View quote
Henry Adams
Art is pattern informed by sensibility. View quote
Herbert Read
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. (Charles Baudelaire)
The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time. Factories are the workplaces of our National Socialist racial comrades. Streets and highways carry the name of the Führer. Settlements today are not isolated communities, but rather parts of greater city-construction plans. Every work site must be properly located within its neighborhood and surrounding setting (i.e., the natural world). View quote
Fritz Todt
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death - & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End - for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50? View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think a poet's focus is not quite what a prose writer's is, it's not entirely on the world outside. It's fixed on the area where the inside meets the outside, where the poet's sensibility meets the weather, meets the street, meets other people... that shadow land between self and reality. View quote
Mark Strand
I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility. View quote
Lisa Marie Presley