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• Free will is the sensation of making a choice. The sensation is real, but the choice seems illusory. Laws of physics determine the future.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Law, Choices

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• We must eradicate root and branch any fear and dread in our soul concerning the future that is coming towards us... We must develop composure with regard to all the feelings and sensations we have about the future; we must anticipate with absolute equanimity whatever may be coming towards us, thinking only that whatever it may be will be brought to us by the wisdom-filled guidance of the universe.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Roots, Soul

  Rudolf Steiner (2011). “On Fear”, p.29, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

  Guy Debord

  Art, Past, Organization

  Internationale Situationist (Paris), No. 1, June 1958.

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• Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

  Remy de Gourmont

  Different, Consciousness, Life Is

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• What is there in life if you do not work? There is only sensation, and there are only a few sensations— you cannot live on them. You can only live on work, by work, through work. How can you live with self-respect if you do not do things as well as lies in you?

  Maria Callas

  Lying, Self, Wells

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• If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.

  Thomas Young

  Fall, Eye, Science

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• Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.

  Watchman Nee

  Men, Two, Soul

  Watchman Nee (1993). “The Finest of the Wheat, vol 2 - Hardcover: Selected Excerpts from the Published Works of Watchman Nee”, p.69, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?

  A. J. McLean

  Girl, Love Is, Guy

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and answer something profound in contemporary sensibility.

  Clement Greenberg

  Profound, Texture, Answers

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.157, Beacon Press

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• Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood; when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Running, Memories, Blood

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “Return”

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• Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Some of the environmental lobbyists of the western nations are the salt of the earth, but many of them are elitists. They have never experienced the physical sensation of hunger. They do their lobbying from comfortable office suites in Washington or Brussels. If they lived just one month amid the misery of the developing world, as I have for fifty years, they would be crying out for tractors, and fertilizer, and irrigation canals, and be outraged that fashionable elitists back home were trying to deny them these things.

  Norman Borlaug

  Home, Years, Office

  Interview with Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1997.

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• Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

  Eliza Leslie

  Gratitude, Favors, Want

  Eliza Leslie (1839). “The Behaviour Book: a manual for ladies”, p.176

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• Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

  Helen Rowland

  Perfect, Solitude, Pleasure

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• Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Mean, Compassion

  Henry Fielding (1916). “The Works of Henry Fielding”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  George Washington

  Brave, Enemy, Satisfaction

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Music, Spring, Fall

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• Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.

  Ernst Mach

  Pain, Philosophy, Medicine

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

  Ernst Mach

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Pain, Suffering, Reason

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.695, Penguin UK

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• In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Dreamtigers”, p.48, University of Texas Press

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• If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Cracks, May

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