Quotes About Senses

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.

When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

A thing or one's eyes are not maya (deceit), but the attraction that occurs due to the sense is maya!

Pidän ihmistä vaaleanpunaisena aistidatan kokoelmana.

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.

It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unifying features of a complex of phenomena which present themselves as quite unconnected to the direct experience of the senses.

No intento imaginar un Dios personal; es suficiente sentir un gran respeto hacia la estructura del mundo, en tanto que permite que nuestros inadecuados sentidos lo aprecien.

But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the heart, but also of the senses and of the perceiving mind.

Denn gerade so haut dich das Leben übers Ohr. Es packt dich, wenn deine Seele noch schläft und gibt dir ein Bild ein oder einen Geruch oder einen Klang, die du nicht mehr loswirst.

There's a poem about onions," she said. "It's about how memory is like an onion—it makes you cry.

I catch the idea by two senses. But when I read aloud I hear what is read and I see it, and hence two senses get it and I remember it better, if I do not understand it better.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life.

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.

...Life is nothing but trading smells.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe -- to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs that draw nourishment from it -- is a wonder beyond words.

I consider the luck of simply being born, of being plucked out of the cosmos and bestowed with eyes to see, and nerves to feel, and ears to hear. Our senses. Our speech. Our breath. How crucial and insistent our ceaseless moving lungs from our first cry to our last.

I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness, Men into things, not killing humane senses. You've been turned in to my reminiscences To make eternal the unearthly sadness.