Senses Quotes

1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors

You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep. — Josemaria Escriva
Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we… — Barry Hughart
How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more… — Ajahn Brahm
Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses. — Don DeLillo
It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish,… — Basilea Schlink
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can… — Rabindranath Tagore
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy… — Tahir Shah
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to… — Philip Caputo
Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not. — Walter Russell
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks… — Robert Browning
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest argument for the unmaterialistic character of American life is . . . that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of… — Mary McCarthy
The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the… — Christopher Fry
Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The… — David Gelernter
..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… — David Hume
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel!… — Friedrich Nietzsche
...concepts are related to the senses; and, when feeling takes place, wisdom is shut out. — Huangbo Xiyun
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not… — Paramahansa Yogananda
We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our… — Peter Julian Eymard
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our… — John Ruskin
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man .… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body… — Alexander Lowen
Not only does the psyche exist, but it is existence itself. It is an almost absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical...We… — Carl Jung
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of… — Henry David Thoreau
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found… — Eknath Easwaran

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