Distinguished Quote by Samuel Alexander

Usually my starting point is something that I've seen. It might be a painting, it might be an object. But they always start from…

— Russell Hoban

As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the…

— Edmund Husserl

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature…

— David Hume

Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.

— David Abram

Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

— Anonymous

The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through…

— Max Horkheimer

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

— Carlos Castaneda

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

There is something hidden in each sensation.

— Gustavo Cerati

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

— John Dewey