Senses Quotes
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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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Do you qualify to be alive or is the limit of your senses so as to survive?
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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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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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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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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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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
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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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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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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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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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Our senses are always part of the process.
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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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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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We live on the leash of our senses.
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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
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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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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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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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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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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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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.
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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
