Senses Quotes
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
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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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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Our senses are always part of the process.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
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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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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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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
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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.
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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?
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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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Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.
