Sensation Quotes

484 quotes by 402 authors

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this… — Charles Baudelaire
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. — Josh Billings
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by… — W. E. B. Du Bois
No matter how many shows I've done, as soon as they say it's time to start, I get that nervous sensation and feel like I… — Gisele Bundchen
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron
Often there are players who have only football as a way of expressing themselves and never develop other interests. And when they no longer play… — Eric Cantona
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. — Emile M. Cioran
Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence. It is the… — Frederick William Robertson
I regret that children died, but I felt like God. It was the power of God over a human being. ... I got very little… — Peter Woodcock
Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to… — Arthur Dove
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria
The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
My picture of the world is drawn in perspective and not like a model to scale. The foreground is occupied by human beings and the… — Frank P. Ramsey
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages… — Wilhelm Wundt
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering… — Charles Lyell
In the study of this membrane [the retina] I for the first time felt my faith in Darwinism (hypothesis of natural selection) weakened, being amazed… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive. — Aristotle

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