He who takes his fill of every pleasure. . . becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike. . . becomes insensible.
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
Sorrow and frustration have their power. The world is moved by people with great discontents. Happiness is a drug. It can make men blind and deaf and insensible to reality. There are times when only sorrow can give to sorrow.
No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; the sluggard is a living insensible.
It is useless attacking the insensible.
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the press is a deep stain upon the character of the country; & in addition to the evil of calumniating good men, & giving a wrong direction to public measures, it corrupts the people by rendering them insensible to the value of truth & of reputation. The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.
Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things.
Lo! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. Secure, insensible.
Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray. . . and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen
The sluggard is a living insensible.
