Senses Quotes

1128 Senses quotes by 752 unique authors

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring… — William Butler Yeats
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide… — Andre Gide
It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle. — Albert Einstein
Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. — Samuel Johnson
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. — Samuel Johnson
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it… — George Santayana
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses… — Richard Le Gallienne
Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth… — Michael Josephson
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,… — Diane Ackerman
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different ways of knowing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A… — Aharon Appelfeld
In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. — Rudolf Arnheim
Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which… — Robert M. Lindner
When you're sitting in front of a screen, you're not using all of your senses at the same time. Nowhere than in nature do kids… — Richard Louv
There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you… — Frederick Lenz
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people are completely oblivious to eternity. They look at the sky at night and they think that's eternity; it is just the senses having… — Frederick Lenz
Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through… — Frederick Lenz
The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical… — Frederick Lenz
Those who, animal-like, live solely according to the senses... misuse God's creation in order to indulge the passions. They do not understand the principle of… — Maximus the Confessor
For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of… — Evelyn Underhill
The average person just sees through their senses. The world is filled with wonderful mysteries and beauty. You need personal power to open up all… — Frederick Lenz
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires,… — Frederick Lenz
What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes. — Frederick Lenz

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