5 Senses Quotes

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.

Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Ethnic, cultural, artistic and culinary diversity. LA...a feast for the senses.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?

Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

Online marketing rarely is able to appeal to more than two senses - yet offline often (if utilized the right way) represents the option of multi sensory appeals.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

If I were called upon to define briefly the word Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the senses preceive in nature, seen through the veil of the soul.

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

Of the five senses, smell is the one with the best memory.

The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

Our senses are always part of the process.

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.

It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.

Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.