Quotes About Senses

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.

The smell of rain is rich with life.

Polish the heart, free the six senses and let them function without obstruction, and your entire body will glow.

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;

Often eating took considerable extra time, since he could hardly see his food, groping with a fork or spoon, enforcedly omnivorous. "Blind men wear spotted pants," Dorothy teased, telling him to wash his...

we are chemosensory idiots. By comparison most other organisms are geniuses.

Today I think Only with scents,—scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field... It is enough To smell, to crumble the dark earth...

Among the people, there will be someone as the poetry, as the imagination that displays neither present to the senses nor perceived as a real. When it comes true and visible, it becomes the Divine gift and reward for someone's visceral wishes, desires, and prayers.

Fanaticism is the disease of religion and politics. It is very hard to treat and cure the fanatic, to remove the fanatical virus from its mind. Such people also suffer from hate, jealousy, lack of senses, and a complex, and are the danger for the entire humanity.

Love is a glorious feeling; it surrounds all the senses and dominates those. Beloved is always one, and it is part of your heart and soul.

Love was like smell, Rule thought. Smell was the most complex and dimensional of the senses, weaving together past and present, near and distant, motion and stillness. Love, too, was a weaver.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

Training the senses does not mean denying them or depriving them. It means educating them not to demand things that will cost us in health, security, or freedom. In training the senses, we don't forfeit anything in life of lasting value.

But when we train the senses we conserve our vital energy, the very stuff of life. Patient and secure within, we do not have to look to externals for satisfaction. No matter what happens outside--whether events are for or against us, however people behave towards us, whether we get what pleases us or do not--we are in no way dependent. Then it is that we can give freely to others; then it is that we can love.

El amor no solo no tiene ojos, sino que también le faltan los oídos

In the morning when I saw Ivan's name in the in-box I almost started to cry. It reminded me of a kind of torture I had read about where afterward the captors returned your senses to you one by one, and you felt so grateful that you told them everything.

Senior came to learn that the Catholic Church respected the integrity and the goodness of the created order, and that her teachers would say, with Saint Thomas Aquinas, that the grace of God perfects nature rather than supplants it, and that all of our knowledge, including what we know about God himself, comes to us first through the senses.

Water has no taste, no color, no odor; it cannot be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself. It fills us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.

A person who is visually blind can make use of own other senses to identity the differences between the trustworthy and unworthy people; but one who has a materialistic mind can't distinctively find the true character of others and most often mistakes his foes for his friends only.

The pain in the heart has alone the greatest power to activate the main creative part of the brain that could train all other senses of the body to do invention or innovation of something par excellence.

Most green witches find the use of the word "magic" to be irrelevant. Magic implies something out of the ordinary. But to a green witch the mundane is magical. When she senses, responds to, and gently nudges the flows of natural energy around her, nothing could be more natural. She's performing natural magic.

Theatre as I conceive it is wholly and absolutely tied to performance. I think that performance is only the projection to the senses of situations and images.

Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a bottleneck, then now your mind has to make decisions of what is important and what is going to be above the radar and what's going to be below the radar.