The Senses Quotes

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.

Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.

As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.

We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.

Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

When one speaks of awakening, it means de-hypnotizatio n; coming to your senses. But of course to do that, you have to go out of your mind.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible nature.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.

Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.

Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Inspiration is a slender river of brightness leaping from a vast and eternal knowledge, it exceeds reason more perfectly than reason exceeds the knowledge of the senses.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.

People, you have six senses! The last one is common! Use it!

Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses . . .

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.