Senses Quotes
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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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Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.
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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.
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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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Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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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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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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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
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Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
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Our senses are always part of the process.
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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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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?
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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?
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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual through the senses is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.
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Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.
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To Aquinas the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part is the mind ... and its intellectual contemplation.
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The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
