“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.” PastTurnsLiteratureSocialCausesNaturalRaceProgressGenerationsEffectsExerciseIntellectualConsciousCapacityUnityStoresFedsSensibilityConnectingPast And PresentSocial Progress Author:George Henry Lewes
“The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.” SelfTurnsBandConsciousEnglandSixtySensibilitySelf ConsciousFreezeMods Author:Jon Landau
“Being frugal, conscious of making money, is not a negative thing. That sensibility of creating value and finding value and reinvesting in those customers is what separates great restaurants from the average ones.” ValuesFindingsCreatingConsciousNegativeAverageCustomersMaking MoneyRestaurantsSensibilityFrugalCreating ValueGreat Restaurants Author:Joe Bastianich
“The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.” NeedsHandsUnderstandingImaginationConsciousMissionsUnconsciousFacultyOrgansSensibilityLuminousConscious And Unconscious Author:Edward Hirsch
“Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . . . Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.” KindMeanArtSelfTodayArtistChallengesConsciousnessMaterialsConsciousMethodInstrumentsSensibilitySelf ConsciousModifying Author:Susan Sontag
“I do not consciously reclaim. I am not those "some readers" and so I think it would be impossible for me to see my work that way, as reclaiming a preserve. I write in a way that is aimed at all levels - conscious and unconscious - at pleasing the kind of reader I am. Some of the authors I read are male, some are female, and some are even in between. And speaking of in between, maybe now is as good a moment as any to point out that there might be no "feminine" or "masculine" literary sensibility, or sensibility generally.” ThinkingWritingKindMomentsImpossibleConsciousFemaleUnconsciousFeminineSensibilityMasculine Author:Rachel Kushner
“An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.” IfsWayIdeasMovingLanguageSoundEmotionConsciousnessAcceptingStepsIgnoranceConsciousSmellDreadSensibilityInvitationsDance Steps Author:Aberjhani