#sen

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #sen




The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.


Lyman Abbott


#essence #faculty #highest #lord #man

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.


Simon Van Booy


#past #present #life

I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really?" He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do." He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.


Sarah Dessen


#auden-west #eli-stock #life #sarah-dessen #life

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.


Cameron Conaway


#past #present #transformation #life

I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.


Malcolm X


#dissent #inspirational #protest #inspirational

I Owe Everything I Am, And Everything I Will Be To Books!(:


Gary Paulsen


#life

I was fourteen then. He was eighteen. Everything is biographical, Lucien Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.


Michael Ondaatje


#philosophy #sentiment #life

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.


James Boswell


#wine #life

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be.


Roger Zelazny


#life #longing #poetry #pride #sense-of-wonder

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...


John Geddes


#sensual-life #soul #superficial #wise-words #life