Sensual Quotes
279 Sensual quotes by 234 unique authors
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was…
— Saint Augustine
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
— Francis Bacon
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Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
— Andre Balazs
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that…
— James A. Baldwin
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than…
— Mortimer Adler
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
— Rita Mae Brown
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I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
— Lord Byron
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the…
— Kim Cattrall
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Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting…
— Maya Angelou
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness -…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a…
— Chip Kidd
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
— Oscar Wilde
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As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".
— Albert Einstein
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Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
— David Brainerd
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Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this double nature of…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost…
— Billie Jean King
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Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.
— Aaliyah
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I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old…
— Oscar Niemeyer
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