Senses Quotes
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Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses.
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Live with all of your senses.
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It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.
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The sense of the joy in anything is the sense of Christ.
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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
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For the Eye altering alters all; The Senses roll themselves in fear And the flat Earth becomes a Ball.
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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
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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.
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The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
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Coquetry, it's a triumph of the spirit over the senses.
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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.
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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.
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If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.
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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.
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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.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
