Sensations Quotes

222 Sensations quotes by 182 unique authors

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
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
Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. — Ernst Mach
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. — Ernst Mach
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
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
Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space. — Georges Braque
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
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
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
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. — Angela Carter
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
Literature expresses itself by abstractions, whereas painting, by means of drawing and colour, gives concrete shape to sensations and perceptions. — Paul Cezanne
I am still searching for the expression of those confused sensations that we bring with us at birth. — Paul Cezanne
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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