Absolute space, in its own nature, without regard to anything external, remains always similar and immovable. Relative space is some movable dimension or measure of the absolute spaces, which our senses determine by its position to bodies, and which is vulgarly taken for immovable space.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Jesus said, ‚The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.‘ I think if he lived nowadays, instead of ‚kingdom,‘ he would have said, ‚dimension.‘ And ‚heaven‘ refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

As social animals we humans are very sensitive to our rank and position within any group. We can measure our status by the attention and respect we receive.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

That the divided but contiguous particles of bodies may be separated from one another is a matter of observation; and, in the particles that remain undivided, our minds are able to distinguish yet lesser parts, as is mathematically demonstrated.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.