#sensibility

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#light #movement #sensibility #us #visual

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#learn #less #live #more #more and more

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#affections #consent #into #sensibility #should

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility. ↗

— Stefano Gabbana

#each #interprets #our #own #personal

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#clause #delightful #film #i #kind

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #certain #compelled #consequences #consider

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#out #own #sensibility #steers #their

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#american literature #british #could #english #inappropriate

Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment. ↗

— Jane Austen

#literature #love #marianne-dashwood #quote #sense-sensibility

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. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#certain #characters #directly #given #indirectly