Quotes About Senses

Every person, old or young, male or female, automatically slows down as if the air had become thick and difficult to penetrate. Do you know at what building?—a bakery! That powerful olfactory stimulus slows you automatically.

Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.

No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language's capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be fixed, not can its use ever be absolutely laid down. It changes constantly; it grows with an almost exponential joy. It evolves eternally; its words alter their senses and their meanings subtly, slowly, or speedily according to fashion and need.

You smell of cinnamon in spite of the mombins.' 'You smell of cinnamon too,' I'd murmur.

music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...

Yet do I believe that all this is true, which indeed my reason would persuade me to be false; and this I think is no vulgar part of faith to believe a thing not only above, but contrary to reason, and against the argument of our proper senses.

My senses remained on high alert, and even thinking back on that time makes me feel giddy. I could never have a similar experience now. I have too much behind me, too many references, stories, too many years of thoughts.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

I love to smell flowers in the dark," she said. "You get hold of their soul then.

I trust my nose, ears, eyes. But my brain…

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a 'real' experience.

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

Nowadays we go to a movie and must watch commercials first. The relaxed, receptive state of surrender we like to reserve for the [...] film [...] is now given over to advertising where our senses and our sensibilities are assaulted against our will

It was as if food had been in monochrome and had suddenly appeared for the first time in colour.

You know why farts smell?" "I don't." "So the deaf can enjoy them too.

Battle assaults the senses, and that assault ferments fear, and obedience is the narrow thread that leads out of fear's chaos into survival.

Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.

The trouble arises from the generally received philosophy of life, according to which life is a contest, a competition, in which respect is to be a ccorded to the victor. This view leads to an undue cultivation of the will at the expense of the senses and the intellect.

the senses immediately tell us is not the truth about the object as it is apart from us, but only the truth about certain sense-data which, so far as we can see, depend upon the relations between us and the object.

El problema nace de la filosofía de la vida que todos han recibido, según la cual la vida es una contienda, una competición, en la que solo el vencedor merece respeto. Esta visión de la vida conduce a un cultivo exagerado de la voluntad, a expensas de los sentidos y del intelecto

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil's trap, having been captured by him to do his will. 2 Timothy 2:26

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.