Quotes About Sense Organs

#1. The inner man has access to the sense organs of god.

Carl Jung

#2. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

Nikola Tesla

#3. He who stops his activities and at the same time is still thinking about them attains to nothing; he only becomes a hypocrite. But he who by the power of his mind gradually brings his sense-organs under control, employing them in work, that man is better. Therefore do thou work

Swami Vivekananda

#4. 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.

Johannes P. Muller

#5. Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

James S.A. Corey

#6. Wonder if he can feel pain? Bowman thought briefly. Probably not, he told himself; there are no sense organs in the human cortex, after all. The human brain can be operated on without anesthetics. He

Arthur C. Clarke

#7. Physiology, in its analysis of the physiological functions of the sense organs, must use the results of subjective observation of sensations; and psychology, in its turn, needs to know the physiological aspects of sensory function, in order rightly to appreciate the psychological.

Wilhelm Wundt

#8. The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

Walter Lippmann

#9. The problem of physics is how the actual phenomena, as observed with the help of our sense organs aided by instruments, can be reduced to simple notions which are suited for precise measurement and used of the formulation of quantitative laws.
Experiment and Theory in Physics

Max Born

#10. What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

Arthur Eddington

#11. My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Timothy Leary

#12. Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and its sense organs, on being burned in the fire of Knowledge, become Knowledge and are absorbed in Brahman, like darkness in the light of the sun.

Adi Shankara

#13. No one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands.

Henry Louis Gates

#14. The soul does not require the organs of sense in order to see, hear, smell, taste and feel, in a much more perfect state; but with this great difference, that in such a state, it stands in much nearer connection with the spirtual than the material world.

Carl Jung

#15. (he thought it particularly foolish to endow inmates with a detailed sense of the positions of vital organs, but there you go),

V.E Schwab

#16. The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.

Marcel Proust

#17. The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

John Ruskin

#18. We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

Deepak Chopra

#19. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.

G. Stanley Hall

#20. Mans perceptions are not bounded by organs of perception, he percieves more than sense (tho' ever so acute) can discover

William Blake

#21. I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#22. I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Brett Somers

#23. The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.

Pliny The Elder

#24. I like that my body is in shape and toned, and isn't too muscular. I feel I still have a woman's physique.

Alicia Sacramone

#25. Every face he saw was the face of a corpse-to-be. His world was peopled with living ghosts

Rick Yancey

#26. Any time I have any time off, I try to travel.

Margot Robbie

#27. There were absences in my life which were a comfort, then were was a presence that ruined me.

Robert Pinget

#28. Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#29. Flannery O'Connor once told a young friend to "push as hard as the age that pushes against you.

Tish Harrison Warren

#30. What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

Kay Ryan

#31. The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain ... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

Jeremy Brett

#32. Never abandon your calling or go outside your purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#33. Keep spreading the love, world. But don't get greedy and overpopulate the planet.

Allen Evangelista

#34. A cold sense of desolation lodged itself somewhere in the base of my throat, and suddenly I was no longer enraged or devastated, but terrified of the immense, throbbing loneliness that was only now closing like a vise on my internal organs.

Anonymous

#35. Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

Mabel Robinson