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«The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Crime,
Self-esteem,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
arise, crimes, indulgence, indulgences, sensibilities, sensibility
«Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abuse, decline, dose, doses, laudanum, sensibilities, whipping
«What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.»
Author: Salman Rushdie
(Writer)
| About:
Art,
Imagination,
Tenderness
| Keywords:
distinguishes, industry, sensibilities, sensibility, tenderness
«When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
aspiration, damaged, due, due to, negligence, not due, privation, privations, sacrilege, sensibilities, sensibility, suffers, wound
«The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
indicated, indicates, insensibility, inversion, sensibilities, sensibility, trifled, trifles
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