Senses Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image ““The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses.”” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Senses
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“It was a moment when I understood that all of us have to be more considerate of the realities of the bodies of others.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“I live so resolutely apart from physical contingencies that my senses no longer trouble to inform me of them.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
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“The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“Ultimately it was man's limited senses which established the boundaries of the world.” — Félix J. Palma Copy Share Image
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard,… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The language of gardening fuels the senses: talk with your hands, observe with your ears and listen with your eyes. — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and… — Christine Ebersole Copy Share Image
