senses quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.‘

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

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.

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.

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.