The Senses Quotes

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?

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.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired].

Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

Yoga is about the will, working with intelligence and self-reflexive consciousness, can free us from the inevitability of the wavering mind and outwardly directed senses.

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

We all take leave of our senses, from time to time. . . . .

The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes.

Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected circuit.

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

We become in part what our senses take in.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?

In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.

The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much interpret as breathe.

When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.

The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.

Control of senses is an important human value.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.

My senses tell me hubba.

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.