The Senses Quotes
A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.
The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly occupy and disquiet the mind.
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
It turns out that we literally don't empathize unless we're physically present - that the oxytocin, the famous "tend and befriend" hormone is not produced unless we're present with all five senses.
Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.
To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.
Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it.
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.
Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
Endless drama in a group clouds consciousness. Too much noise overwhelms the senses. Continual input obscures genuine insight. Do not substitute sensationalism for learning.
Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace.
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.
Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.
Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.