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222 Sensations quotes by 182 unique authors
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Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw…
— Lewis Mumford
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In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.
— Ernst Mach
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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
— Ernst Mach
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People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping,…
— Alexander Herzen
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Colour, Figure, Motion, Extension and the like, considered only so many Sensations in the Mind, are perfectly known, there being nothing in them which is…
— George Berkeley
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Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly…
— Nicole Krauss
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and…
— James J. Gibson
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We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena.…
— Tara Brach
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The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes.…
— Charles Jencks
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That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,…
— Fernando Pessoa
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My external sensations are no less private to my self than are my thoughts or my feelings. In either case my experience falls within my…
— F. H. Bradley
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What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were…
— C.S. Lewis
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Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.
— Georges Braque
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The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations,…
— Odilon Redon
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The great artist is a formulation of the greatest intelligence: he is the recipient of sensations which are the most delicate and consequently the most…
— Paul Gauguin
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I let a good many mistakes show through when fixing my sensations. It will always be the same and this is what makes me despair.
— Claude Monet
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.
— Angela Carter
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An optical impression is produced on our organs of sight which makes us classify as light, half-tone or quartertone, the surfaces represented by colour sensations.…
— Paul Cezanne
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Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions.
— Paul Cezanne
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I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth.
— Paul Cezanne
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it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage…
— Winston Churchill
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