The Senses Quotes
The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.
Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?
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.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
One might say that the American trend of education is to reduce the senses almost to nil.
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.
Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.
An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.
When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong.
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.
The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.
The power to be at peace - not because of anything your physical senses perceive, and sometimes in spite of what your physical senses perceive - is the power to help heal this world miraculously.
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.
We've made a final offer. We hope Ziggy Palffy will come to his senses. We have NO hope his agent will.
I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.
Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.
Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.
One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master.
War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.
Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.
The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.
We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
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!
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.
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.
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some 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.