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Senses Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee,…
- Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
- The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
- The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind…
- Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work,…
- 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…
- The influence of the senses have in men overpowered the thought to the degree that the walls of time and space have come to look…
- The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and…
- The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.
- War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that…
- All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.
- The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.
- The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy…
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