Is it that Nature, attentive to the preservation of mankind, increases our wishes to live, while she lessens our enjoyments, and as… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“My senses remained on high alert, and even thinking back on that time makes me feel giddy. I could never have a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier… — Philip Caputo Copy Share Image
Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start… — Neil Harbisson Copy Share Image
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My main interest is in the promotion of human values. From birth we have a sense of affection and some sense of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience,… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“If you can think of your lover in six senses, then I'd say you're nailed. They've got themselves wrapped around your heart.… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean… — Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
“All who seek you test you. And those who find you bind you to image and gesture. I would rather sense you… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Now, my tree-climbing days long behind me, I often think about the lasting value of those early, deliciously idle days. I have… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses,… — John W. Dawson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in… — Catherine Brady Copy Share Image
As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
“My senses, until now starved of any except visual stimuli, were suddenly assailed by a concentrated, if not distilled essence of the… — John Farebrother Copy Share Image
Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
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