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“Worship in truth is worship that arises out of an actual encounter with God, a response to the experience of knowing God's real presence and activity in our daily lives. This has nothing to do with sentiment, thinking religious thoughts or having aesthetic experiences in church buildings; any religion can give you that sort of thing.”

Thinking Giving Real Church Religious Knowing Building Truth Is Activity Worship Response Arise Encounters Daily Life Sentiments Aesthetic Knowing God Church Buildings

Author:Graham Kendrick

“I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.”

People Thinking Writing Trying I Can Different Running Asks Ambition Machines Hip Hop Observation Hips Hops Sentiments Manipulate My Ambition

Author:Mos Def

“PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.”

Mind Time Belief One Thing Sentiments Preference Frame Of Mind

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or from Sentiment; whether we attain the knowledge of them by a chain of argument and induction, or by an immediate feeling and finer internal sense; whether, like all sound judgement of truth and falsehood, they should be the same to every rational intelligent being; or whether, like the perception of beauty and deformity, they be founded entirely on the particular fabric and constitution of the human species.”

“Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is the standard of sentiment. Propositions in geometry may be proved, systems in physics may be controverted; but the harmony of verse, the tenderness of passion, the brilliancy of wit, must give immediate pleasure. No man reasons concerning another's beauty; but frequently concerning the justice or injustice of his actions.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as well as the other, be solid and satisfactory, and that reason and sentiment concur in almost all moral determinations and conclusions.”

Wells May Reason Might Sides Moral Morality Ethics Determination Argument Conclusion Suspects Sentiments Plausible Concur

Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment; and a false relish may frequently be corrected by argument and reflection. There are just grounds to conclude, that moral beauty partakes of this latter species, and demands the assistance of our intellectual faculties, in order to give it a suitable influence on the human mind.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

“In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.”

Source: Moral and Political Philosophy

“There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual”

Self Life Is Conscience Sensual Delusion Sentiments Lofty Dreamy Reverie Self Delusion Groveling

Book:Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

Source: Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists

“ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.”

Inspiration Friendship Inspired Sentiments Antipathy

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.”

Feelings Emotional Reader Smart Lonely Empty Expected Ashamed Poetry Is Sentiments Detached Sentimentality Susceptible Feeling Lonely Icy Grounding Infatuated

Author:Tracy K. Smith

“From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.”

Life Mind Ideas Social Understanding Exercise Highest Gains Enjoyment Acquire Sentiments New Ideas Intercourse Vigor Interchange

Author:Joseph Addison

“The following sentiments are illustrative of the philosophy of the Talmud: "Love peace and pursue it at any cost." ... "Remember it is better to be persecuted than to persecute." ... "Be not prone to anger." ... "He who giveth alms in secret is greater than Moses himself." ... "It is better to utter a short prayer with devotion than a long one without fervor." ... "He who having but one piece of bread in his basket, and says, What shall I eat tomorrow? is a man of little faith."”

“There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.”

“The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.”

Faith Religious Doubt Mature Sentiments Workshops

Author:Gordon Allport

“I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.”

Knows Men Two Reason Literature Love Is Expression Instinct Sentiments Sentimental Vocal

Book:Tales of All Countries

Source: Tales of All Countries

“Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.”

Wells Real Seems Grows Community Situation Struggle Survival Mere Desert Sentiments Sentimental Confrontation Goodwill

Author:Larry Harvey

“PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.”

Mind Sometimes Feelings Learning Environment Fashion Creatures Clean Following Sentiments Prosperous Solemn Philistines

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.”

Mortals Sentiments Sentimental Sentimentality

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.”

Men Feels Mean Doe States Beautiful Speak Fine Perceive Fancy Sentiments Touching Sentimental

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.”

Should May Long Sides Objects Prepared Dear Contrary Scripture Abandon Sentiments Be Prepared Hesitation

Author:William Symington

“Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends, than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening wassail, wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around.”

Heart May Order Found Masters My Friends Fellows Wine Drinking Glasses Deeper Beer Sentiments Fellowship Toasts Sparkle Foam Beer And Wine

Author:Ogden Nash

“Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.”

Love Persons Whole Values Perfect Love Is Emotion Mere Response Sentiments Ardent Perfect Love Whole Person

Book:Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected

Source: Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected

“But the love of offspring...tender and beautiful as it is, can not as sentiment rank with conjugal love.”

Love Beautiful Sentiments Can Not Offspring Conjugal

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“A tree, young or old, if admired, remains a definite vision, and when after long absence it is visited again, the meeting place is approached with feelings of pleasure and curiosity as to how one's friend had fared, even with thoughts as to what changes may come to tree or visitor since first they met; this may seem like a foolish sentiment - perhaps it is. But, after all, sentiment is mingled with most that's best in life.”

Ifs Firsts May Long Feelings Seems Young Pleasure Vision Tree Mets Remains Meetings Curiosity Absence Foolish Sentiments Definite Visitors

Author:Charles Eley

“Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.”

Men Moral Morality Essentials Foundation Combination Sentiments Uncertain

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy”

Would Be Action Language Loses Dresses Employment Sentiments Mechanic Gross Efficacy

Book:Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham

Source: Lives of the most eminent English poets, with critical observations on their works. With notes by P. Cunningham

“Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: From the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799

“There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of sympathy is not merely the responsive tear, the echoed sigh, the answering look; it is the embodiment of the sentiment in actual help.”

Looks Real Helping Action Form Powerful Tears Most Powerful Sentiments Sympathy Sigh Embodiment

Author:Octavius Winslow

“The habit of shedding blood, or even of seeing it shed, corrupts all sentiment of humanity.”

Humanity Animal Compassion Seeing Blood Habit Cruelty Sentiments Animal Rights Shed Shedding Blood

Author:Constantin-Francois Chasseboeuf

“Style in painting is the same as in writing; a power over materials, whether words or colors, by which conceptions or sentiments are conveyed.”

Writing Art Style Color Painting Materials Sentiments Conception

Book:The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet

Source: The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds: Illustr. by explanatory notes & plates by John Burnet

“Once you’re in sales, you will also learn what sells and what not. Use the sensitivity of detecting market sentiments as a platform for running your business and in the identification of product winners in the future.”

Use Running Products Sells Winner Sentiments Platforms Sensitivity Identification

Author:Li Ka-shing

“And now let me give the sentiment which has been, and ever will be, the governing passion of my soul: 'Liberty for each, for all, and forever!'”

Giving Has Beens Soul Passion Liberty Forever Let Me My Soul Sentiments Governing

Author:William Lloyd Garrison

“This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves.”

“A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in putting the vast majority of backs back in their place. Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse, by demanding 'law and order' rather than 'segregation forever'.”

“Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.”

People Knows Littles Real Action Too Much Sentiments Emphasis Metta Meaning Of Friendship

Author:Sangharakshita

“And finally, I just felt it was crucial for some of us in the hip hop community to speak up on the issues of teen suicide, bullying, and the overall anti-homosexual sentiment that exist within hip hop culture. I felt so strongly about these issues and this song that I had to do a video that would command some attention, even if it makes some viewers uncomfortable.”

Ifs Song Culture Speak Felt Community My Own Attention Issues Comfort Cost Suicide Hip Hop Video Command Hips Uncomfortable Hops Sentiments Bullying Crucial Homosexual Viewers

Author:MURS

“Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.”

Sometimes Christ Mad Philosopher Theology Vain Excellent Confused Wicked Sentiments Deceitful Short Lived

Book:John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)

Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)

“No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt.”

Eye Nations Wish Taxes Importance Debt Spending Redemption Sentiments Arrangements Desirable Systematic Discharge

Book:The real George Washington

Source: The real George Washington

“To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.”

Ifs Humans Life Is Purpose Universe Courses Asks Answers Profound Inevitable Outcomes Existentialism Cosmos Sentiments Cosmic Bias Carbon Pinnacle Primates

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.”

Source: The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous

“I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries.”

Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.”

Passion Mad Pity Sentiments Humane

Book:Juliette

Source: Juliette

“We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.”

Imagination Live By Admiration Sentiments

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it is ours. It may be very natural to have this loyalty to our own species, but let us hear no more from the naturalists about the "sentimentality" of anti-vivisectionists. If loyalty to our own species - preference for man simply because we are men - is not sentiment, then what is?”

Ifs Men May Natural Animal Sacrifice Species Privilege Loyalty Objectives Sentiments Animal Rights Metaphysical Preference Sentimentality Naturalist

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.”

Knows Men Way Has Beens Character Able Nations Tree Judging Ideals Fortune Meetings Fruit Sentiments Citizenship Commonwealth Masonic Freemasonry Formality

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Having wallowed in a delightful orgy of anti-French sentiment, having deplored and applauded the villains themselves, having relished the foibles of bankers, railwaymen, diplomats, and police, the public was now ready to see its faith restored in the basic soundness of banks, railroads, government, and police.”

Government Ready Police Sentiments Villain Delightful Bankers Railroads Diplomats Foibles Soundness

Author:Michael Crichton

“In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Years Believe Wells May Ends Done Government Form Courses Democracy Blessing Constitution Agree Faults Sentiments Incapable Despotism Forms Of Government

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.”

Sides Attitude Communication Simplicity Careful Complexity Sentiments Far Side Exegesis

Author:Pat Buchanan