For you teach very clearly by your behaviour how slowly and how meagerly our senses proceed in the investigation of ever inexhaustible… — Giovanni Battista Beccaria Copy Share Image
When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can… — Francis Stevens Copy Share Image
I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie… — Dave Cook Copy Share Image
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
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
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“To deny the existence of God would be to close your eyes to the beauty around you, to close your ears to… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The… — Michael Chabon 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
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air.… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
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
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the… — Alvin Lustig Copy Share Image
Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be,… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image