So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Vane watched her reaction from under heavy lids, watched flaring passion light her eyes. Sparks of pure gold flashed in the hazel… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the… — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
'WHEN two lovers are making love, and if they are both no-selves, nothingness, then a spontaneous pleasurable sensation happens. Then their body… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She should, of course, feel scandalized, or at the very least, shocked. Yet whenever she allowed herself to recall all that had… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but… — Hugh Black Copy Share Image
Oh, love is very much a physical thing… I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves… — John Updike Copy Share Image
To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so.… — William Blake Copy Share Image
From a very early age onwards, people's attention had been attracted to the volatile substances, characterized by strong smells or flavours, which… — Otto Wallach Copy Share Image
The harder I push, the more I find within myself. I am always looking for the next step, a different world to… — Ayrton Senna Copy Share Image
Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted… — Yves Klein Copy Share Image
“Ecstatic technology isn't limited to silicon chips and display screens. As John Lilly's early research established, it's the knowledge of how to… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
I would love an old classic car, or something like that. I'd get something much more subtle than any of those cars.… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the 'elements'… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“His eyes snapped shut as he grimaced from a surge of renewed pain. I pressed my bleeding forearm against his parted lips.… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this… — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English… — Beatrix Campbell Copy Share Image
To have an idea of a thing is not just to get certain sensations from it. It is to be able to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day.… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“The nose can’t help catchin’ what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evil’s been around for a… — M.C. Humphreys Copy Share Image
We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“In my eye, men appear at their most powerful when they strain to reach that momentary perfection. Every muscle and sinew is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When you see and feel the sensations you are experiencing as sensations, pure and simple, you may see that these thoughts about… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
