Quote by Thomas Mann

“There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness, which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence.”

— Richard Dawkins

“The body is something that we have gathered through what we eat and mind is an accumulation of impressions.”

— Sadguru

“Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

— Orison Swett Marden

“Certainly, the sensory deprivation afforded by the remote, silent and totally dark chambers, such as the Diverticule of the Felines in Lascaux and the…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“you are the same as an insect, just with a more complex nervous system responding to stimuli with a wider array of denser behavioral…

— David McRaney

“When humans’ nerves detect big and small stimuli at the same time, they ignore the smaller one.”

— Fuminori Nakamura

“i'm a creature of fine sensations”

— Mary Shelley

“But the spectacle perceived does not partake of pure being. Taken exactly as I see it, it is a moment of my individual history,…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation…

— Ivan Pavlov

“There was, quite simply, no way that my experiences, with their intensely sophisticated visual and aural levels, and their high degree of perceived meaning,…

— Eben Alexander

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it…

— John Vianney