Quotes About Senses

We others, who have long lost the more subtle of the physical senses, have not even proper terms to express an animal's inter-communications with his surroundings, living or otherwise, and have only the word 'smell,' for instance, to include the whole range of delicate thrills which murmur in the nose of the animal night and day, summoning, warning, inciting, repelling.

I wonder...if a life lived only in the mind is any less intense? If all the senses are engaged what is lost, but fact?

The intellect derives from the senses, which are limited, and come from the body. The intellect therefore is also limited, and it can never truly know reality, which is infinite and eternal.

But no one ever saw the full spectacle, for no witnesses had the senses necessary. Proportionally the cable was far thinner than a human hair—if it had been reduced to a hair's diameter, it would still have been hundreds of kilometers long

I say I do not wish to be counted as an ignoramus and an ingrate toward Nature and toward God. For if they have given me my senses and my reason, why should I defer such great gifts to the errors of some mere man? Why should I believe blindly and stupidly what I wish to believe, and subject the freedom of my intellect to someone else who is just as liable to error as I am?

Reality is not a matter of our senses. It can't be visualized.

Han spiste visst renmose iblandt, for hans ånde duftet som hos en renokse. Det var nogen vildtsmak av hans ånde.

The woman didn't taste bad, but she tasted wrong. She smelled good, but it wasn't right.

the uncontrolled senses are considered plunderers. The good position one attains by executing religious principles is wasted as the plundering senses take it away

You need to check out his body using your super Spidey Otherworld senses.

I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.' 'Goodness,' I babbled, 'but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you're not going to feel any better all day.

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment (...) This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not the essence itself.

The mind is the lord of the senses, but the breath is the lord of the mind.

And when we cannot fully understand the significance of something, when we cannot validate the total experience with the senses – can't see, can't taste, can't smell, can't touch, can't hear, and cannot conceive – we are left with a choice: to deny or to believe.

A little thought will make this clear. The sense of existence of a man with a massive physique must, in itself, be of the kind that embraces the whole world; for that man, considered as a object of knowledge, every-thing outside himself (including me) must necessarily be transferred onto the objective outside world experienced by his senses

to the great Spirit and Fountain of life, all things, in both space and time, must be present Ã¢â'¬Â¦ action, once begun, never ceases Ã¢â'¬Â¦ thus the past is always present, although, for the purpose of fitting us for this mortal life, our ordinary senses are so constituted as to be unperceptive of these phenomena. —CATHERINE CROWE, FROM THE NIGHT-SIDE OF NATURE

Penciumanlah jendela indrawi pertama yang terbentuk di janin, yang paling kuat terhubung ke memori dan emosi dibandingkan indra lainnya.

A miracle is a display of power from beyond the five senses.

If reality is nonlocal why does it appear to our senses as local and separated?

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.