Quotes About Senses

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

WHEN YOU APPROACH ME in stillness and in trust, you are strengthened. You need a buffer zone of silence around you in order to focus on things that are unseen. Since I am invisible, you must not let your senses dominate your thinking. The curse of this age is overstimulation of the senses, which blocks out awareness of the unseen world.

What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your years. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

You see us wrong, who see with your eyes, And hear nothing true though straining your ears. What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

All the things we experience in life can be separated into two realms, the realm of the concept and the realm of the senses.

Q: Why did God make farts smell? A: So deaf people could enjoy them, too.

Q: What's the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal thermometer? A: The taste.

Q: What's invisible and smells of worms? A: Bird farts.

Fear sharpens the senses. Anxiety paralyzes them. —KURT GOLDSTEIN, The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology (1939)

My body was braille for the creeping influences.

I have two children and it's amazing how in tune they are with nature, with light, with smells, with time.

Outside, the world whistled. The rain was stained.

Det enda jag hör efter det är min egna andhämtning och ljudet av lukten, av mina egna steg

No one's urine smells as good as your own. The

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye… Clothing, an extension of the skin… Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left.

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The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world are useful or harmful for human creatures encumbered with bodies....they tell us nothing about entities in their Being.

I like your voice. That sounds ridiculously lame, I know. But when you cannot see, Miss Fry, sound and the other senses become far more acute. Normally one likes the look of someone to whom one feels attracted. I like the sound of your voice.

Numbers are eternal while everything else is perishable; they are of the nature not of matter, but of mind; they permit mental operations of the most surprising and delightful kind without reference to the coarse external world of the senses-which is how the divine mind must be supposed to operate. The ecstatic contemplation of geometrical forms and mathematical laws is therefore the most effective means of purging the soul of earthly passion, and the principle link between man and divinity.

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.