The Senses Quotes

Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses.

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

I'm just a dog person. I love dogs very much, especially big ones, hounds, and retrievers. I think they are funny and often have good senses of humor. Plus, they give unconditional love.

I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

Yoga is nothing if it is not perfect harmonyof the body, senses, mind and intellect, reason, consciousness and self. When all these are integrated that is true yoga.

The supreme adventure in a man’s life is his journey back to his Creator. To reach the goal he needs well developed and co-ordinated functioning of his body, senses, mind, reason and Self.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

This love thing awakened a group of slumbering senses in my body that I never even knew existed.

Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

Six senses keeping Five around a sense of self

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.

Poor mind, from the senses you take your arguments, and then want to defeat them? Your victory is your defeat.

As a practice exercise, I'd usually just wear blindfolds around the house to allow my other senses to take me wherever I would like to go.

I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.

To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.

The reason why there's such a rigid repression of the mentally ill is the psyche of humanity senses something. It senses that it doesn't want to deal with the unknown.

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

The tantric path involves taking the mind and directing it beyond the senses.

Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having contact in the sense world. There are other dimensions.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all of that, without it - these are just words.

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

As long as you exist, you are aware of the manifest universes through the senses, through feelings and through mind.

When you don't have certain senses your other senses become heightened.

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.