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Quotes About Senses

It has been by rejecting the evidence, that the word, or works of God in the creation, affords to our senses, and the action of our reason upon that evidence, that so many wild and whimsical systems of faith, and of religion, have been fabricated and set up.
~ Thomas Paine
Let scholastic sophisters entangle themselves in their own cobwebs; I am resolved to take my own existence, and the existence of other things, upon trust; and to believe that snow is cold, and honey sweet, whatever they may say to the contrary. He must either be a fool, or want to make a fool of me, that would reason me out of my reason and senses.
~ Thomas Reid
Those who reject some principle of common sense in speculation, find themselves under necessity of being governed by it in their practice. A skeptic may struggle hard to disbelieve the information of his senses, as a man does to swim against the torrent; but ah! it is in vain...For after all, when his strength is spent in the fruitless attempt, he will be carried down the torrent with the common herd of believers.
~ Thomas Reid
Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness.
~ Thornton Wilder
El budismo nos guía hacia la felicidad suprema, la cual proviene de la transformación de nuestra mente. Buda observó que cuando estamos apegados a los objetos de los sentidos, nos sentimos finalmente desdichados.
~ Thubten Chodron
Cayl replies...I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I'm here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses.
~ Tielle St. Clare
Whether you need technology in your body for medical reasons, or just want it to augment your senses or for experimentation, there are numerous fronts that open-source advocates are working on to make implantable technology safer, cheaper, and available to everyone.
~ Zoe Quinn
I'm the official Senses Taker, and I must have some information before I can take your senses
~ Norton Juster
Eroticism is] the poetry of the body, the testimony of the senses. Like a poem, it is not linear, it meanders and twists back on itself, shows us what we do not see with our eyes, but in the eyes of our spirit. Eroticism reveals to us another world, inside this world. The senses become servants of the imagination, and let us see the invisible and hear the inaudible.
~ Octavio Paz
los colores no pueden comprenderse, se sienten.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
~ Oscar Wilde
six emotions make up the first group: love, desire and joy in response to whatever my senses recognize
~ Conrad W. Baars
How fast the ears learned to tell what sounds meant, much faster than it took the eyes to decipher written words.
~ Cornelia Funke
It's good versus evil, Dan. You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human. The rides are human. We each mediate them through our own experience. We're physically inside of them, and they talk to us through our senses. What Debra's people are building--it's hive-mind [stuff:]. Directly implanting thoughts! Jesus! It's not an experience, it's brainwashing!
~ Cory Doctorow
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touch'd from; The scent of these arm-pits, aroma finer than prayer; This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
~ Walt Whitman
Beginning my studies the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact consciousness, these forms, the power of motion, The least insect or animal, the senses, eyesight, love, The first step I say awed me and pleas'd me so much, I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther, But stop and loiter all the time to sing it in ecstatic songs.
~ Walt Whitman
As I have heretofore said, one can know many things which he cannot sense. One can, therefore, KNOW that balance in Nature's polarization principle DEMANDS equality of division in all of her paired effects.   It
~ Walter Russell
The shame-based person is nearly always enmeshed in some way with one or more people. While we are in a dysfunctional, shame-based relationship, we may feel like we are losing our mind, going crazy. When we try to test reality, we are unable to trust our senses, our feelings and our reactions.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...
~ Charlotte Mason
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.
~ Chauncey Wright
Remember to use all five senses... Smell, in particular, can be incredibly evocative when written well. Think about temperature, ambient sounds, the feel of the ground, the taste of the air.
~ Abby Geni, "Description," 2016
To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body...
~ Thomas Fuller
Mystery" referred to realities behind the appearances that one could observe by means of the senses. That is to say, though our hands, eyes, ears, nose, and tongue are able to access reality, they cannot fully grasp this reality. They cannot comprehend it.
~ Hans Boersma