Quotes About Senses

He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

Ethereal is the true reality, the home from which mankind originated and to which mankind may yet return. The Ethereal is the Forever Realm . . . the final destination. There, and only there, will mankind discover all the senses that are. In Ethereal, living is alive.

My sweat smells like peanut-butter.

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Rationalism: In epistemology, the theory that truth begins and ends in the mind, not in the senses. It is the ultimate intellectualism, claiming that everything can be figured out deductively. For this to be so, reality has to have an intrinsically logical design; then all we have to do is really think about something and its nature will reveal itself right inside our beans.

it is no longer a question of cutting off the senses, desires, and passions; on the contrary, it is a question of mounting these high-spirited, steedlike messengers in full consciousness so that they may carry us rapidly to a continuous presence to the world.

Il sapere è innanzitutto carnale. Le nostre orecchie e i nostri occhi lo captano, la nostra bocca lo trasmette. Certo, ci viene dai libri, ma i libri escono da noi. Fa rumore, un pensiero, e il piacere di leggere è un retaggio del bisogno di dire.

Non si ha più diritto di mettersi le parole in bocca prima di ficcarsele in testa? Niente più orecchie? Niente più musica? Niente più saliva? Parole senza più gusto?

Le savoir est d'abord charnel. Ce sont nos oreilles et nos yeux qui le captent, notre bouche qui le transmet. Certes, il nous vient de livres, mais les livres sortent de nous. Ça fait du bruit, une pensèe, et le gout de lire est un héritage du besoin de dire.

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee. Anon.

Phenomenon," in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., signifies "an object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition." It is commonly contrasted with the term "noumenon" (from the Greek nooumenon: "that which is apprehended by thought"—itself derived from the Greek term nous, for "mind").

I had rarely before paid much attention to the natural world. But my exposure to traditional magicians and seers was shifting my senses; I became increasingly susceptible to the solicitations of nonhuman things. In the course of struggling to decipher the magicians' odd gestures or to fathom their constant spoken references to powers unseen and unheard, I began to see and to hear in a manner I never had before.

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

Život je, sada to znam, samo duga?ak niz provera naših telesnih i mentalnih senzora, odnosno onih ta?aka koje odre?uju naše mesto u prostoru u kojem prebivamo. Zbog toga, verovatno, pamtim samo onaj trenutak naglog prelaska iz relativnog reda u totalni haos.

Curious, I thought, the way nature provided for eyelids, but not lids for the ears.

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What color is the wind? Blew.

The fact that there is so much immoral behavior is not evidence of the weakness of the moral senses. The problem of wrong action arises because of the conflict among the several moral senses that exist, because of the struggle between morality and self-interest, and because of the corrosive effect of those forces that blunt the moral senses. We must often choose between duty and sympathy or between fairness and loyalty.

When I read aloud," Lincoln later explained, "two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I remember it better.

A mind responsive to beauty is a storehouse with many rooms; words, sounds, textures, all the nobler exercises of the senses leave some image filed and folded to be summoned at need. There, too, the brutal images are kept: the sights and smells and hurts, real and imagined, which the responsive mind accepts and has bedded deep.

Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

So that you understand that just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something it doesn't mean to say it's not there, it's only what your senses bring to your attention.

just because you see something, it doesn't mean to say it's there. And if you don't see something, it doesn't mean to say it's not there. It's only what your senses bring to your attention.