#2,886

Puritanism is the attitude that befits the decent man in the world today.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,828

We are fully convinced only by the idea that does not need arguments to convince us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,806

Our spontaneous aversions are often more lucid than our reasoned convictions.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 450

#2,795

The ultimate reality is not that of the object constructed by reason, but that of the voice answered by sensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,751

Sensibility is a compass less susceptible of going crazy or misleading than is “reason.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 442

#2,329

Not only the intellect, in some men the soul itself brays.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#2,326

The typically modern solution to any problem always scandalizes one who was born with a sensibility for human excellence.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 377

#2,137

The religious sensibility oppressed by the Church takes refuge in strange catacombs.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 348

#2,128

Impartiality is at times simple insensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 347

#2,105

Since the 18th century discovered “sensibility,” the serious philosophical task has consisted in isolating in it specific capacities for perception which are confused with passive psychological states.
Ethical consciousness, aesthetic consciousness, religious consciousness.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 341

#2,091

Sensibility does not project an image on its object, but a light.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 339

#1,808

The results do not change, even when everything changes, if the sensibility does not change.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 297

#1,778

Rigid moralism dulls the ethical sensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 293

#1,648

New ideas occasion disturbances in history; new sensibilities change its course.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 275

#1,537

The technification of the world blunts one’s sensibility and does not refine one's senses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 257

#1,530

Adapting to the modern world demands the hardening of one’s sensibility and the debasing of one’s character.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 256

#559

God is not the object of my reason, nor of my sensibility, but of my being.
God exists for me in the same act in which I exist.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 106

#519

Happiness is that state of sensibility in which everything appears to have a reason for being.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 100

#512

Contemporary literature, in any period, is the worst enemy of culture.
The reader’s limited time is wasted by reading a thousand mediocre books that blunt his critical sense and impair his literary sensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 99

#417

In an authentic culture reason becomes sensibility.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 84