The pride connected with knowing and sensing lies like a blinding fog over the eyes and senses of men, thus deceiving them concerning the value of existence.
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Where Sense is wanting, every thing is wanting.
When a man is taken in a mystical sense, his qualities are often signified by his actions, and by the circumstances of things about him.
We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.
There’s this sense that of course you want to be famous. When you’re a performer, of course you want an audience, but it’s very, very different from courting fame.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me – than any other whatsoever – for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.
Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Much madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense — the starkest Madness — ‘Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail — Assent, and you are sane — Demur — you’re straightway dangerous — And handled with a Chain —
