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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,… — Diane Ackerman
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
God, we thank you for this earth, our homes; for the wide sky and the blessed sun, for the salt sea and the running water,… — Walter Rauschenbusch
I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is… — Gerhard Richter
Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without… — Henry Fuseli
All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. — Ann Druyan
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things. — John Wilkins
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. — Joseph Addison
It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and… — Max Born
All changes in space which we see, hear, smell or taste are literally tactile impressions. All our senses are variations of our unique sense of… — Rudolf von Laban
There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of… — Lin Yutang
Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes… — Michel de Montaigne
To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and… — D. H. Lawrence
Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in… — Samuel Johnson
The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together… — Rudolf Steiner
The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of world government —… — Walter Cronkite
What seems real to the mind can be as important as any material fact. We live by the spirit and the imagination as well as… — Walt Disney
Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released… — Jim Morrison
If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature… — John Muir
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing… — Anais Nin
The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something… — Jeff VanderMeer
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness. — Robert Delaunay
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently… — Denis Diderot
Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of… — Paul Engle

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