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Senses Quotes by Rene Descartes
- Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from…
- The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects…
- The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
- I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I…
- Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even…
- Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the…
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