Sensations Quotes

222 Sensations quotes by 182 unique authors

Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of… — Hermann von Helmholtz
I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes. — Jean Helion
Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or… — Julius Evola
Without a doubt the sense of beauty does not lie determined in the concreteness of an individual beautiful thing or person. Rather its purpose is… — Unknown Author
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses… — Matthieu Ricard
With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior… — Steve Paxton
The sensations of dismemberment flow through the forceps like an electric current. — Warren Hern
Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in… — Piero Ferrucci
We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to… — David Ignatow
The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. — David Ignatow
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap. — Evelyn Underhill
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson
In the short walk between his aeroplane and reaching the outside world at Heathrow, Michael Bywater encountered no fewer than 93 separate notices telling him… — Alexander Waugh
I conceive of the film as a modern art form particularly interesting to the sense of sight. Painting has its own peculiar problems and specific… — Hans Richter
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched. — Jacob Epstein
When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this",… — Swami Vivekananda
Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it… — James Van Praagh
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations… — Wilhelm Wundt
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. — Wilhelm Wundt
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator… — Wilhelm Wundt
Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know. — Vanna Bonta
Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in… — Eric Swanson
I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment: but rallying my wits, and recollecting my principles, I at once called my… — Charlotte Bronte

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