“The only gain of civilisation for mankind is the greater capacity for variety of sensations - and absolutely nothing more.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“When we are aware about our body’s sensations, we can release physical pain, tensions or stress through slow movements.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
“We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I never cease to be thrilled when entering my own gateway... and always feel that entrance gardens should give the first sensation… — Edna Walling Copy Share Image
I find the relationship of sensation and physicality, and, for me, it's music like anything else. It's a different way of expressing… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
“Feelings are of four sorts: Sensations, Thoughts, Emotions, and Volitions. What are called Perceptions are merely a particular case of Belief, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with… — Plato Copy Share Image
When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Photographs will always be impressive because they show us nature, and all artists will find in them a world of sensations. The… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
Autism isn't something a person has, or a shell that a person is trapped inside. There's no normal child hidden behind the… — Jim Sinclair Copy Share Image
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection)… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature… — Barry Long 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
What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I can't exactly describe it, but as I looked at the putt, the hole looked as big as a wash tub, I… — Jack Fleck Copy Share Image
Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room — Simon Hughes Copy Share Image
The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“IT'S AN EXTRAORDINARY FEELING WHEN PART OF YOUR BODY ARE TOUCHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. I'M THINKING OF THE SENSATIONS FROM SEX… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
“I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt." [As quoted in Pol Neveux's introduction, Guy… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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