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Senses Quotes by David Hume
- All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the…
- To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making a very unexpected…
- ..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and…
- the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of…
More Senses Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon
- Love is the poetry of the senses. — Honore de Balzac
- We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses! — Martha Beck
- There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses,… — William Blake
- I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart… — Andrea Bocelli
- The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. — Elizabeth Bowen