Accomplished Quote by Walter Benjamin

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

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

— Anonymous

“The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the…

— Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

“When we limit our experience to what we perceive, we let our senses define our existence. Unless we are willing to step out of…

— Vint Virga

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

Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct…

— Lyall Watson

“So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the…

— Hannah Arendt

“Civilization is about removing information about our surroundings; discarding information about nature so our senses are not burdened with all that information and our…

— Tor Norretranders

“So much of what we imagine to be the testimony of reason or the clear and unequivocal evidence of our senses is really only…

— David Bentley Hart

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble…

— Diane Ackerman

What we're seeking to do is internalize perception. Perception is very much involved with the senses and the mental processes and the emotional processes.

— Frederick Lenz