Senses Quotes
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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 will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
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Our senses are always part of the process.
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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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Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man.
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Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.
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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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Absolute nakedness was intrusive, confusing to the senses. Paradoxically, it both revealed and diminished identity.
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
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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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Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.
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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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Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
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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 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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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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Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
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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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Love is the poetry of the senses.
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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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Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
