Senses Quotes
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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.
Bram Stoker -
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Descartes recommended that we distrust the senses and rely on the ... use of our intellect.
Allen W. Wood -
If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.
Mel B Spice Girls -
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
Alex Bledsoe -
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 -
I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance, . . . conditions which alert the total sensibility - cast it almost in stress - extend insight and response, the basic responsive range of empathetic-kinesthetic vitality.
Carolee Schneemann
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Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison The Doors -
Our problem is that sound is not important in our culture. We know the world from the visual, not from the other senses. I had to be taught other ways of understanding.
Bernie Krause -
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.
Marcel Proust -
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?
William Blake -
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes -
Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?
Ray Stevens
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
William Osler -
The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
August Macke -
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal -
Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process.
Chungliang Al Huang -
Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
John Locke Nazareth -
It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
Sydney Schanberg
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Our senses are always part of the process.
Agustin Fernandez Mallo