The Senses Quotes
The Senses Quote of the day
The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.
Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"
If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.
Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.
Life (ayu) is the combination (samyoga) of body, senses, mind and reincarnating soul. Ayurveda is the most sacred science of life, beneficial to humans both in this world and the world beyond.
You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.
Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.
The world is known by the senses The senses are known by the mind The mind is known by Consciousness And Consciousness is known by itself
He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!
Let us treasure up in our soul some of those things which are permanent..., not of those which will forsake us and be destroyed, and which only tickle our senses for a little while.
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.
Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.
I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.
The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.
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.
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.