Quotes About Senses

Those who have lost, as James Hillman put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses, are sometimes so trained to believe that the objects outside them have no "feeling reality" to them that all feeling inflows of that sort are gated entirely.

We have lost, as James Hillman once put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses.

Since extra-sensory perception (ESP) is awareness of the world beyond the senses, it would be inappropriate to term this Sixth Sense 'extrasensory'.

Computers, iPads, and DVDs have their place, but for small children through to teens, these electronic devices can warp the senses and affect brain development negatively, because they are all flat and clean and the same distance away. You don't refocus your eyes or move about enough to develop the balance and activity centers of the brain. And

Your animal spirit guide finds great joy in working with you and experiencing ordinary reality through your physical senses, and you get an animal spirit guide that counsels, heals, and empowers you.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I love the smell of skunks. Driving down a back road and you smell a skunk that's sprayed or been hit. I love that. It reminds me of home.

As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. But of all the senses, sight is the one I'd fear losing most.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

A crowded ferry ride away from Tanzania's coastal city, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar is a marvel for the senses. Every sight and smell is provocative, inspiring a sense of the old and new.

I was 21, and rehearsing a play, took a fall and was in a coma for a few days. And when I recovered, I'd lost my sense of smell completely.

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

One of the things that you're not really in control of - apart from everything - is your smell.

Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men's adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.

I have very heightened senses - not just my hearing but my sense of smell.

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.

So many people got caught up in the excitement and the promise of the Internet that they kind of lost sight of their senses.

In the dark of the trees he could smell splintered wood and see white upturned faces like wide white dirty flowers.

Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate—and who can live off their death.

We no longer live addicted to speech; having lost our senses, now we are going to lose language, too. We will be addicted to data, naturally. Not data that comes from the world, or from language, but encoded data. To know is to inform oneself. Information is becoming our primary and universal addiction.