People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
From the senses originate all trustworthiness, all good conscience, all evidence of truth.[Von den Sinnen her kommt erst alle Glaubwürdigkeit, alles gute Gewissen, aller Augenschein der Wahrheit.]
Where Sense is wanting, every thing is wanting.
When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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.
The senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.[Dass die Sinne nicht irren, aber nicht darum, weil sie jederzeit richtig urtheilen, sondern weil sie gar nicht urtheilen.]
The quiet sense of something lost.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren’t in a very good mood.
The loss of a sense adds as much beauty to the world as its acquisition.[La perte d’un sens ajoute autant de beauté au monde que ne fait son acquisition.]
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.
