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«The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.»
Author: Emile Durkheim
(Sociologist)
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«A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity»
«Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Manners
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«Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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confront, disarm, disarmed, disarming, disarms, insensible, prompt, prompter, prompting, valor
«Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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contracted, insensible, narrow-minded, obsolete, prejudiced, remained, sympathies, trifles, wasting, wondrous
«All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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all in, all in all, concentrates, estrangement, hardening, hardens, increases, insensible, in all, punishment, renders, resistance, strengthens
«Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
flattery, insensible
«Insensible of mortality, and desperately mortal.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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desperately, insensible, mortal, mortality
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