The Senses Quotes
Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.
The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?
Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.
How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.
Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.
Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.
I gotta be dope first. I gotta be appealing to your senses, and to what you like first. Then the message happens. Then you relate to the message.
Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.
Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such, Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.
When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
...just because you see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s there. And if you don’t see something, it doesn’t mean to say it’s not there. It’s only what your senses bring to your attention.
Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.
As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.
Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.Mind can't see event of future before it happens.
Nature offers splendor and artistry for us to appreciate. Opening our senses reveals we are surrounded by magnificence.
Our senses are the lavish gift of being human.
Total knowledge is annihilation Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel The world sensed only through senses And immune to the knowledge without feeling.
There is a whisper of light if you can hear Louder than sound of darknessyou never fear Numb sky’s muteness leaves you hard of hearingSenses wish to fly feelings disappearing
Snyder: There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense."Giles: Well, actually, that would be one of the five.
I am a practical person. Always believed in multi purpose tools, good education and limited conversations .... and then I saw her!
I see you better in music, I hear you better in wind, I feel you more in a flooding moonlight, that understands nothing, but darkness and silence.
And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.
For ourselves, who are ordinary men and women, let us return thanks to Nature for her bounty by using every one of the senses she has given us.
That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.
Desires intellectual, social etc., but they all be, Soul‟s longing through mind and senses activity.- 40 -
The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?
Sometimes, staying alive solely depends on keeping your head in place and your senses alert
See with your mind, Speak with your heart, Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being.
To fight adversity, to improvise, to solve problems, and to save the coup, I had gathered all my senses into unusual configurations, which made me grow wild and enhanced my perceptions.
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.