Once again, when you upgrade sensations from an addiction to a preference, you can enjoy things such as gourmet food and music,… — Ken Keyes Jr Copy Share Image
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
“Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Finally [Indira Ganhi] called a beautiful dark little boy who was playing on the lawn, and embracing him tenderly, murmured, 'This is… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
Alas! Your dear friend and servant Galileo has been for the last month hopelessly blind; so that this heaven, this earth, this… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“He kissed her on her ear, a kiss with the barest hint of moisture to it. She could not breath for the… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity… — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but… — John Locke Copy Share Image
None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The moment after, I began to respire 20 quarts of unmingled nitrous oxide. A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities,… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
“Breath and heat and contact and shirts off and skin on skin and smiles and murmurs and the enormity revealing itself in… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
It started back in '79, My whole darn future was on the line. I created a brand new sensation Through my mind… — Sylvia Robinson Copy Share Image
“ 'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ” — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul. — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
Cut off from direct experience, cut off from our own feelings and sometimes our own sensations, we are only too ready to… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own.… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image