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140 Our Senses quotes by 121 unique authors
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Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to…
— Arthur Keith
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But all provisions that He (God) has made for the gratification of our senses…are much inferior to the provision, the wonderful provision that He has…
— John Adams
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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
— William James
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Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see…
— Clive Barker
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To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly…
— Marilynne Robinson
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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they…
— Neil Gaiman
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guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released…
— Toni Morrison
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The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them,…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
— Oscar Wilde
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Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.…
— Adam Smith
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Fasting from any nourishment, activity, involvement or pursuit—for any season—sets the stage for God to appear. Fasting is not a tool to pry wisdom out…
— Dan B. Allender
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Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified…
— Stephenie Meyer
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... the open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire crown - the Air is our robe of state - the Earth is our…
— John Keats
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It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass…
— Graham Hancock
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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways,…
— Jonah Lehrer
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Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and…
— Jane Austen
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Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air;…
— Wendy Mass
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Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness…
— Milan Kundera
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We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage…
— Helen Keller
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