It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of… — William James Copy Share Image
Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“We make sense of the world intentionally. Faced with chaos, we seek or make the familiar, and build up the world with… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can… — Sydney Wells Copy Share Image
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I was pre-med, so I was going to go into the family business, more or less. But I came to my senses,… — Sendhil Ramamurthy Copy Share Image
All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their… — William Harvey Copy Share Image
Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex… — William James Copy Share Image
What is the most profitable? Fellowship with the good. What is the worst thing in the world? The society of evil men.… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
“1: There are at least six of them: Sight, which embraces space itself, and tells us by means of light of the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Do not go looking for problems to feed your soul. Just let life be your teacher. It will nourish you with its… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by… — Amy Hardie Copy Share Image
With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
“In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one's life history is etched in the senses. And things… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Me like to smoke the bud but my eyes they get all red, my senses get dull and me forget what i… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
“Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame… — M. Ageyev Copy Share Image
I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a way that was based purely on the senses. Everything in my upbringing was a reaction to… — Stella McCartney Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether the Christmas feeling has anything to do with the sixth sense. Perhaps we're a little more the angels at… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Thinking Best Ever is one thing, making something else. Thinking goes round and round. Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you… — Jon Boorstin Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
