Quotes About Senses

As we have seen before, this finely tuned judgement also allows Johnson to discriminate deftly between the different senses of a particular word. Thus there are sixteen senses of 'world', ranging from 'the great collective idea of all bodies whatever' to 'the earth; the terraqueous globe'

The inward light is forever striving to gather enough additional light to penetrate the fog of our senses.

One should not judge pleasure according to the senses. One should judge it according to truth. . . . The power to renounce gives one more power than to possess things." ? Henry Suso, Henry Suso: The Exemplar, with Two German Sermons

Harald Sigurdson, I am a fool who has come to his senses. I obey you in all things. I love you in all things. I am your man. Let us now fight as brothers!' Harald did not hear these words. For he too was a berserk. . . .

It was the wiser course, she thought, to deny the evidence of her senses, than her good sense.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot.

Die Mathematik ist es, die uns vor dem Trug der Sinne schützt und uns den Unterschied zwischen Schein und Wahrheit kennen lehrt.

The smell of life." "The smell of farts.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

Lysaer managed a stumbling step. When his senses cleared from the explosion, his eyes beheld a vista of nightmare.

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

When she bleeds the smells I know change colour. There is iron in her soul on those days. She smells like a gun.

The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.