Senses Quotes
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The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.
Rene Descartes -
To Aquinas the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part is the mind ... and its intellectual contemplation.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
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Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi -
When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon -
I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.
Amy Hardie -
Once the well should be emptied of its water. All the mud should be removed. The water which then comes is the purest. Jnana is like this pure water. Once you burn away the thought of 'I' and 'mine', then non-attachment to the objects of the senses will result of its own accord.
Bhagawan Nityananda -
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac -
Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.
Gerolamo Cardano
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
Helen Keller -
Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
P. D. James -
We live on the leash of our senses.
Diane Ackerman -
There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
Anton Ehrenzweig -
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
I mean, we're grown-ups now. Allegedly. And we feel things less than we did when we were kids, because we've grown so much scar tissue, or our senses have dulled. I think it's probably healthy. I mean, little kids don't have to make decisions, unless something's very wrong. Maybe you can't make up your mind as easily, if you feel too much. You know?
Charlie Jane Anders
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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
Wendy Palmer -
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
Rudolf Arnheim -
The war existing between the senses and reason.
Blaise Pascal -
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
Eugene Field -
I like to think of the senses as having a volume control in the brain. The volume turns up on all the other senses when you lose one.
David Mason -
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.
Michael Servetus
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How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?
Rene Descartes -
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
Ernst Haas -
We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
Richard Powers -
Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.
George Pendle