Top 100 Quotes About The Senses
#1. Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
John Milton
#2. Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.
Albert Einstein
#3. Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.
Paul Fussell
#4. What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.
Robert M. Pirsig
#5. These [the senses] we trust, first, last, and always.
Lucretius
#6. In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#7. Apparently she didn't know about that abomination of the senses in which cute boys can hear you speak their names from literally any distance in space and/or time.
Katie Heaney
#8. They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
Galileo Galilei
#9. Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya
#10. Identifying with the results is very dangerous, especially for those trying to control the senses or practice celibacy.
B.T. Swami
#11. The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.
Madame De Stael
#12. The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
Marquis De Sade
#13. The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.
Maria Montessori
#14. The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
John Locke
#15. Alarm, when used for anything less than a fire or an air attack, is certain to muddle the mind, unsettle the senses, and, in most cases, more than double the danger.
Ken Kesey
#16. Montessori called the child under six years old "a sensorial explorer" and based her educational approach for the child's early years upon the child's learning through the senses.
Paula Polk Lillard
#17. Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.
Augustus William Hare
#18. There must be something about art ... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.
Roy Lichtenstein
#19. Walking thus, hour after hour, the senses keyed, one walks the flesh transparent. But no metaphor, transparent, or light as air, is adequate. The body is not made negligible, but paramount. Flesh is not annihilated but fulfilled. One is not bodiless, but essential body.
Nan Shepherd
#20. This solidity is not true. The apparent solidity is the delusion of the senses and of the self. Everything is made up of infinite, intelligent light.
Frederick Lenz
#21. The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole scale of values.
Fynn
#22. gastronomic flavours and traditions on display to tease and seduce the senses.
Atsons
#23. The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
Arthur Rimbaud
#25. Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade
#26. We discover the depths of our humanity when we let go of reality and enter the realm of the senses.
Chloe Thurlow
#27. There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action.
Richard Wright
#28. With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.
Victor Hugo
#29. That's the secret - to distract the senses. Have I told you my theory about them? I think that our sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing are all calibrated for the enjoyment of a perfect world. But since the world is imperfect, we must put blinders on the senses.
Rohinton Mistry
#30. Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.
Joost Meerloo
#31. I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.
Elizabeth Heyert
#32. He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
#33. As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour
William H Gass
#34. I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine
It will be a holiday of the senses
Eric Gamalinda
#35. Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.
Peter Redgrove
#37. Writing chases after the senses, and conveys them in an altered form. When it is done well, the senses come alive in a new and captured form.
Susan Minot
#38. Music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses ...
Philip Sidney
#40. Within my words there is a longing
To be written, through the senses to travel across the mind
To be perceived by your heart, to rest in your deep.
Preeth Nambiar
#41. The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.
Zsuzsanna Budapest
#42. Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
#43. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.
William, Saroyan
#44. The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.
Sai Baba
#45. Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.
A.W. Tozer
#46. My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
Claes Oldenburg
#47. The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.
Lord Kelvin
#49. It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.
Maria Montessori
#50. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.
Heston Blumenthal
#52. For vanity, too, inebriates; gratitude, too, intoxicates; tenderness, too, can blissfully confuse the senses.
Stefan Zweig
#54. As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#55. The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.
Maria Montessori
#56. A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.
Alber Elbaz
#57. I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison
#58. Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod
And where power and position are equated with the grace of God
These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast
From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
Jackson Browne
#59. The mind thinks upon, processes, and remembers what the senses forget.
A.J. Darkholme
#60. Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.
Robert Barron
#61. Death, according to one's belief, means either annihilation or release from the limitations of the senses, but it involves no change of character. You don't suddenly alter just because the body's gone.
Algernon Blackwood
#62. The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
Flannery O'Connor
#63. The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.
Joseph Campbell
#64. Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.
Henri Matisse
#65. The senses collect the surface facts of matter ... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. We are not cabin-dwellers, born to a life cramped and confined; we are meant to explore, to seek, to push the limits of our potential as human beings. The world of the senses is just a base camp: we are meant to be as much at home in consciousness as in the world of physical reality.
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
#67. Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
#68. Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.
Walter Russell
#69. Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place.
John Dufresne
#70. In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.
Tadao Ando
#71. But there was change in the air, and whether for good or ill, change always quickens the pulse and sharpens the senses.
Karen Engelmann
#72. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
Friedrich Schiller
#73. A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ...
Antonin Artaud
#74. The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.
Elizabeth Bowen
#75. Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.
Dennis Lehane
#76. Forests are places where we can get back in touch with our inner selves, where we can walk on soft ground, breathe in natural scents, taste berries, listen to the leaves crackling - all the senses are awakened in the subdued light and stress melts away like snow in the snow.
Pierre Lieutaghi
#77. All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
George Santayana
#78. I looked at her, at first with the sort of gaze that is not merely the messenger of the eyes, but a window at which all the senses lean out, anxious and petrified, a gaze that would like to touch the body it is looking at, capture it, take it away and the soul along with it.
Marcel Proust
#79. Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
V.S. Naipaul
#80. Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.
Joel Robuchon
#81. But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.
William Carlos Williams
#82. Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses..
Jim Morrison
#83. Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
#84. Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
Lyall Watson
#85. Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Lao-Tzu
#86. A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a stone ... but it is an incomplete art which privileges the intellect to the detriment of the senses.
Hans Arp
#87. The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly.
Joseph Joubert
#88. Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#89. Look after the senses and the sounds will look after themselves
Lewis Carroll
#90. The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses ...
Aristotle.
#91. The "paranormal" is what we call a phenomenon when examined through the narrow lens of what we consider "normal." You have to transcend the senses to understand them.
Alan Joshua
#92. Poetry is a really helpful instrument. It's so physical; the musicality becomes a sort of expression of the body. The mind is there too, in the formal aspects of the poem. The emotions are there in the way the senses gather things into the poem.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#93. I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.
Janeane Garofalo
#94. We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have found it, we cannot turn away.
Emma Bull
#95. He cared little for commonly experienced emotions, for everyday associations of ideas, now that the closing of his mind had grown more pronounced, and he allowed access only to the most highly refined sensations, to crises of faith and to violent disorders of the senses.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#96. The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#97. I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.
Arthur Frommer
#99. To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Novalis
#100. 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
