Quotes About Senses

Perception, which is an event, opens onto the thing perceived, which appeared to be prior to perception and to be true before it. And if perception always reaffirms the preexistence of the world, it is precisely because it is an event, because the subject who perceives is already at grips with being through the perceptual fields, the "senses.

The senses, and one's own body overall, present the mystery of a whole that, without leaving behind its haeccity and its particularity, emits beyond itself significations capable of offering a framework for an entire series of thoughts and experiences.

The theory of the body schema is implicitly a theory of perception. We have learned to again sense our bodies; we have discovered, beneath objective and detached knowledge of the body, this other knowledge that we have of it because it is always with us and because we are bodies. It will be necessary to similarly awaken the experience of the world such as it appears to us insofar as we are in the world through our bodies, and insofar as we perceive the world with our bodies.

The form is a visible or sonorous configuration (or even a configuration which is prior to the distinction of the senses) in which the sensory value of each element is determined by its function in the whole and varies with it...This same notion of form will permit us to describe the mode of existence of the primitive objects of perception. They are lived as realities, we have said, rather than known as true objects.

The derangement of the senses is to break through the partitions between them in order to regain their indivision--And through this, a thought not mine but theirs...Things speak through me.

Ambiguity is essential to human existence, and everything we live or think always has several senses.

Since perception itself is never complete, since ?ur perspectives give us a world to express and think about which envelopes and exceeds those perspectives, a world which announces itself in lightning signs as a spoken word or as an arabesque, why should the expression of the world be subjected to the prose of the senses or of the concept? It must be poetry; that is, it must completely awaken ?nd recall our sheer power of expressing beyond things already said or seen.

A true realist, if he is not a believer, will always find in himself the strength and ability not to believe in miracles, and if a miracle stands before him as an irrefutable fact, he will sooner doubt his own senses than admit the fact.4

Experimental and clinical psychologists have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between an "actual" experience and an experience imagined vividly and in detail.

your nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real experience and one that is vividly imagined.

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

We see we hear we taste we touch We see the world we wish to live, We hear the sound we wish to listen to, We taste the bittersweet that life has given us, We touch the hearts we wish to love, These are the senses we have been given, we can choose how we want to use them.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Surely you must know that the most powerful graces cannot be felt in the senses or the affections.

While July read, Tom listened with his eyes closed. This was a trick of his whenever he wanted to concentrate on what he heard. By shutting down one information flow he thought to heighten his attention on the other. However, he was never known to put his fingers in his ears when he wanted to see something clearly.

It's so deceptively easy to get people to stop trusting their own senses. They cut you off and then put fear in you.

You cook with your senses," he said when someone did something stupid. "And one of those senses is common sense.

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the loudest of sounds, their sense of smell is shockingly poor and they can only distinguish the sweetest and sourest of tastes.

My mind on this subject is quite made up, and, having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, I prefer to abide by it.

qué hace una rata despierta? Olisquear. Jean-Didier, biólogo

Philosophize means 'feel-loss-of-eyes' because with open eyes you see only illusions and when you shut them and internalize, you understand the truth, the whole picture and the philosophy of all. Withdraw all your senses and internalize, let there be inner wakefulness, and MickeyMize.