August Macke Quotes

The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

August Macke

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• Incomprehensible
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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Incomprehensible
  • Incoherence
  • Adam Smith

• Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Doubt
  • Silence
  • Senses

• The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Knowledge
  • Beginning
  • Perception

• That's definitely more of a classic sound. We've been encouraging him to do it for quite some time and I'm glad that he's finally come to his senses and has decided to show the world how great he can rip on that thing.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • End
  • Movement

• Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Know
  • Remains
  • Senses

• All our knowledge begins with the senses...

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Senses
  • Begins

• When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Scripture
  • Incomprehensible
  • Schoolman

• I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • God
  • Appreciate

• Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Dust
  • Mouth
  • Senses

• Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

  

  William Osler
  • Feels
  • Blind
  • Half

• 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.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Senses
  • Wander

• In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Existence
  • Frustration
  • Senses

• Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Faith
  • Senses
  • Disbelief

• Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Senses
  • Adolescence
  • Plague

• Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Judgment
  • Senses
  • Deceive

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

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Senses
  • Feel Right

• A lot of people think jugglers defy gravity or do stuff. Well, I kind of, from my childhood and golf and all that, it's a process of joining with forces.

  

  Michael Moschen
  • People
  • Childhood
  • Process

• One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Benefits

• Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Question
  • Virtue
  • Temperament

• Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Nature
  • Genius
  • Changes

• For a degenerate like me, Vegas is like a walk down memory lane. Last time I went to Vegas, I went to my old coke dealer's kid's bar mitzvah.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Time
  • Memory
  • Vegas

• The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.

  

  August Macke
  • Senses
  • Incomprehensible
  • Comprehensible