Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging… — Mike Caro 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
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in playing different people, in different situationsIt doesn't matter to me whether someone is in love with a man… — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The time has passed for our sensations in painting to be whispered. We wish them in the future to sing and re-echo… — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at… — Charlotte Bronte 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
The Nazis, for him, are merely available movie tropes--articulate monsters with a talent for sadism. By making the Americans cruel, too, he… — David Denby Copy Share Image
But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill,… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts,… — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates… — Esther Hicks 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
Goethe argued there is no color in the physical world; there are only patterns of light and dark. These patterns are a… — John Gage Copy Share Image
Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach 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
Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
