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As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him. — Dada Bhagwan

My senses down, when the true — Dante Alighieri

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine
It will be a holiday of the senses — Eric Gamalinda

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. — Michel De Montaigne

I remember thinking that I'd give up all other senses if it meant I could hear you laugh again. — Jay McLean

Design. Story. Symphony. Empathy. Play. Meaning. These six senses increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world. — Daniel H. Pink

In silence, our senses come alive — Margo Vader

The one who travels like a lover searching for a new passion is suddenly blessed with new eyes, new ears, new senses. — Anais Nin

Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude. — Jonathan Franzen

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. — Louis Aragon

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world. — Michael Leunig

There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day. — Frederick Russell Burnham

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain. — Susan Kay

Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Ultimately it was man's limited senses which established the boundaries of the world. — Felix J. Palma

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. — Immanuel Kant

Both, the thoughts as well as the senses, were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them, — Hermann Hesse

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses. — Galina Nelson

If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity — Epicurus

Words strike the air and the mind, they act on the senses and on the soul. — Jan Potocki

Now, my intention was to drink just enough to dull the senses, but intentions should never be mixed with alcohol. — Kirt J. Boyd

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood. — David Abram

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness. — Maya Angelou

The thought came creeping, just as the numbness came creeping, stealing over his senses, softly, smoothly, there in the silken silence. — Robert Bloch

If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses. — Neville Goddard

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. — Sharon Olds

The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature. — Max Planck

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

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin. — P.G. Wodehouse

The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have. — Teresa DeCicco

Arrogance is a creature. It does not have senses.
It has only a sharp tongue and the pointing finger. — Toba Beta

Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. — Samuel Johnson

My fragrant rose, in the Realm of the Senses, I can feel your shadow. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for. — Mahatma Gandhi

Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind. — Jane Hirshfield

We have lost, as James Hillman once put it, the response of the heart to what is presented to the senses. — Stephen Harrod Buhner

The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart. — Radhanath Swami

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things. — John Wilkins

Have you ever confused your senses? Something taste like another thing smells? — Katherine Reay

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. — Danny Bonaduce

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses! — Helen Keller

His voice has invaded me. I'm not just hearing it. I'm taking it in through all five senses. It's intimate in a way I can't even begin to explain. — Kim Holden

Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses. — Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses. — Richard Louv

Afraid?" he growled, irritated she could affect his senses so easily. "No," she snapped. "Not even just a little? — Monica Burns

I hold a dramatic and romantic concept of life; What doesn't touch my senses means nothing to me — Pablo Neruda

The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. — Joseph Joubert

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err - not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all. — Immanuel Kant

Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is. — Mahatma Gandhi

Perhaps a man has a hundred senses, and when he dies only the five known to us are destroyed and the remaining ninety-five are left alive. — Anton Chekhov

Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith. — A.W. Tozer

Our real reality is beyond the five senses. — Deepak Chopra

His nearness made my senses spin — Julie Kagawa

We are limited by our visual, physical senses; yet from the Scriptures we can readily conclude that heaven is indeed not distant at all. It is nearby. — Paul P. Enns

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt

Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing that they deny. It is superior, but never opposed to their testimony — Blaise Pascal

If you're afraid of movies that excite your senses, you're afraid of movies. — Pauline Kael

In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. — Aime Martin

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. — Hervey Allen

Identifying with the results is very dangerous, especially for those trying to control the senses or practice celibacy. — B.T. Swami

The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify. — Abraham Flexner

The human body is amazing, she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly. — Dan Brown

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses? — Rene Descartes

It's great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses. — John Updike

Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it is a way of showing your appreciation and love to the loved body through her senses. — Baris Gencel

She sleeps like a cocoyam. A thing without senses. She sleeps like his mother, unplugged from the world. — Taiye Selasi

Am I so tied to a body and senses that I am incapable of existing without them? — Rene Descartes

My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering. — Bob Dylan

The main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. — John Coltrane

Akasha is a Sanskit word for "primary substance" which pertains the quality of light in a person's spiritual and physical senses. — Hema Malini

Adolescence is a plague on the senses. — Henry Rollins

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses. — Henry David Thoreau

We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses. — Richard Louv

Fiction begins with the senses, and the senses go to work in a place. — John Dufresne

Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses — Walter Russell

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination. — Adam Smith

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri

See with your mind, Speak with your heart,
Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being. — B.J. Neblett

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them. — Vera Farmiga

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori

We'd had a hundred conversations with our eyes, with our senses, with our hands and movements, with not a word spoken. — Shelly Crane

Creation sprawls like a dewed and willing maiden outside your window awaiting only the lechery of your senses... — Glen Duncan

Cayl replies ... I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I'm here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses. — Tielle St. Clare

[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation. — Anthony John Patrick Kenny

The woman who is too nice senses that he "needs her" and she runs to his aid like a Red Cross rescue missionary. And she gives - blindly. — Sherry Argov

You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs. — Roshan Sharma

Death is a cessation from the impression of the senses, the tyranny of the passions, the errors of the mind, and the servitude of the body. — Marcus Aurelius

The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Lose your mind and come to your senses. — Frederick Salomon Perls

Once again Chile reduces us to what R. L. Stevenson called 'the virginity of senses' where words cannot match the impressions received. — Brian Keenan

Have good sense, smell the scents, and you will have more cents — Sonya Withrow

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses. — Neil Gaiman

At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses. — Shelly Thacker

True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'. — Arthur Rimbaud

The world is known by the senses
The senses are known by the mind
The mind is known by Consciousness
And Consciousness is known by itself — Rupert Spira

He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses. — Alphonsus Liguori

promulgation of transfixed senses to circumnavigate total deeds brings forth everlasting preservation with augmented courage — Abdul Rehman

A fantastic Riot Boy, Trash the Senses..
-Thurston Moore — David Rat

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses. — Ralph Waldo Emerson