Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The interior deprives men of their senses. Here, the eerie stillness of the wilderness and the darkness of night render the men… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction,… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Survival in more primitive ages required constant alertness, but survival in today's mechanized world almost demands that we turn off our senses.… — Carole Katchen Copy Share Image
In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present,… — Samuel Johnson 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
“If just looking could be so satisfying, why was I always striving to have things or to get things done? Certainly I… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Observe your cat. It is difficult to surprise him. Why? Naturally his superior hearing is part of the answer, but not all… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression,… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
It's easier to be hedonistic and just chase after whatever appeals to your senses. That's the life of an animal, you just… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the… — George Moore Copy Share Image
Women are allowed to enter the spaces of the senses, the space of the body, the spaces opened by sensations, all kinds… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not,… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we… — Neil Harbisson Copy Share Image
As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know… — William Osler Copy Share Image
A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Human skin is porous; the world flows through you. Your senses are large pores that let the world in. By being attuned… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive,… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.'… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through… — Kimon Nicolaides Copy Share Image
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image