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• You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.

  Sandy Woodward

  Use, Goes On, Inside And Outside

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• Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Perfection, Joy

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• Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Doors, Long, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.310, Penguin

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

  Rene Descartes

  Way, Knows, Seems

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• Whoever has not learned to let Nature have her way is not fit for a gardener, or, for that matter, for a contented soul. A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.

  William Lawson

  Garden, Swim, Soul

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• The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Wine, Men

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• Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Order, Color

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• We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

  Geoff Rickly

  Artist, Self, White Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Shining, Desire

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

  Garrison Keillor

  Car, Comfort, Dining

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• A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

  Benjamin Spock

  Attitude, Father, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• The moment the Spirit has quickened us to life in regeneration our whole being senses its kinship to God and leaps up in joyous recognition. That is the heavenly birth without which we cannot see the Kingdom of God. It is, however, not an end but an inception, for now begins the glorious pursuit, the heart's happy exploration of the infinite riches of the Godhead.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Riches, Kingdoms

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• Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.

  Neil Harbisson

  Phones, Body, Building

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Talking

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• For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

  Plato

  Light, Mind, Oracles

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.175, Booklassic

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• Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such,
  Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

  William Shakespeare

  Majesty, Tongue, Rough

  William Shakespeare (1874). “Works”, p.360

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• Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

  Stuart Duncan

  Autism, Filters, Input

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• Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Taken, Government

  "Custodians of chaos", www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.

  Frances Wright

  Dream, Angel, Years

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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• He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

  Saadi

  Wine, Night, Judgement

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.111, Innovations and Information

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• The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wall, Spring, Heart

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• 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

  World, Shifting, Mood

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• In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

  Allen Lacy

  Offering, Mind, Gardening

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• Americans are coming to their senses, and the libertarian theory of society and government is pointing the way. The times change, but the enduring principles that help us to interpret and understand the world do not. It remains true now, as then, as in the future, saecula saeculorum, that government provides neither an effective nor a moral means for solving any human problem.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Mean, Government, World

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