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Quotes About Senses

God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone's heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth.
~ Steve Jobs
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~ Hicham LM Kamelionaire
My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.
~ Jane Campion
children learn from all of their senses, and having the opportunity to get messy is a valuable part of play—and learning. (You can always clean up together afterward
~ Jane Nelsen
If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.
~ Jane Roberts
The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.
~ Jane Smiley
We glide over the offensiveness of names and calm down our consciences by eulogistic mellifluous terms, until our very moral senses are dulled," she wrote. "Let things be shown, let them come forth in their real colors, and humanity will not be so prone to a sin which is glossed over by a dainty public!
~ Jason Fagone
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
~ Jasper Johns
Basta con que alguien salga por una puerta y desaparezca para que su imagen empiece a difuminarse, basta con dejar de ver para ya no ver claro, o no ver nada; y con oír pasa lo mismo, y no digamos con el tacto.
~ Javier Marías
Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.
~ E.E. Cummings
La supervivencia del hombre depende de la perfección de los sentidos menos de lo que pudiera creerse. Su capacidad de raciocinio le ha liberado de numerosos esfuerzos y obligaciones, por lo que muchas de sus facultades se han aniquilado.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it
~ Edith Pattou
The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.
~ Edith Warton
The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order. This power is called imagination.
~ Edmund Burke
Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.
~ Albert Hofmann
A true watchdog sleeps with all his senses or the very edge of wakefulness. And when he wakens, he does not waken as do we humans;—yawningly, dazedly, drunk with slumber. At one moment he is sound asleep. At the next he is broad awake; with every faculty alert.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
I don't have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it's not because I know what it is, But because I love it, and that's why I love it, Because when you love you never know what you love, Or why you love, or what love is. Loving is eternal innocence, And the only innocence is not thinking.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Yes, this is what my senses alone have learned:— Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Es la tierra que nos está llamando desde dentro. La civilización nos va cegando los sentidos a estas cosas. Pero cuando la savia estalla blanca en los almendros, cuando los brezos se calientan, cuando respiramos el olor de la tierra mojada… ¡Cómo sentimos entonces que estamos hechos de ese mismo barro! ¿Se sonríe usted?
~ Alejandro Casona
I acknowledge the privilage of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
~ Alex Grey
With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
~ Alexander von Humboldt
The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion trumps the individual's before he even becomes aware of it.
~ Alexandra Robbins
My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
~ Alfred Austin
I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.
~ Nacho Figueras