Quotes About Senses

I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos. That can't be disproved, but we have no choice but to follow our senses.

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.