Five Senses Quotes - Page 3

• In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Sorry, Sight

  9 Copy quote

• Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, One Day, Alive

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.24, Courier Corporation

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our ability to understand ourselves is now expanding beyond the information that we can receive from our five senses. We're becoming aware of ourselves as more than minds and bodies. We are becoming aware of ourselves as souls while we simultaneously have personalities and walk upon the earth. That is the huge transformation that is reshaping the human experience - the expansion of our perceptual capability beyond the five senses. We're becoming multisensory.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

  Henry Miller

  Criticism, Dull, Way

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.

  Mary Davis

  Years, Survival, Fifty

  4 Copy quote

• And all the world is football-shaped
  It's just for me to kick in space
  And I can see, hear, smell, touch, taste
  And I've got one, two, three, four, five
  Senses working overtime
  Trying to take this all in
  I've got one, two, three, four, five
  Senses working overtime
  Trying to taste the difference 'tween a lemon and a lime
  Pain and pleasure and the church bells softly chime.

  Andy Partridge

  Football, Pain, Church Bells

  "Senses Working Overtime". Song by Andy Partridge, 1982.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The soul is that part of us that is immortal. It existed before the personality was born and it will exist after the personality is gone. The personality is an energy tool of the soul that is temporary. Through it we learn in this domain of the five senses. We learn through what we create and the impact that it has on us. This process is becoming conscious.

  Gary Zukav

  Impact, Personality, Soul

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood.

  Yves Klein

  Childhood, Proof, Lost

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p. 19, 1974.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the unhurried sounds of a hammer gave joy not only to me. Before the five senses were opened, and earlier than any beginning They waited, ready, for all those who would call themselves mortals, So that they might praise, as I do, life, that is, happiness.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Glowing, Voice, Rivers

  Czeslaw Milosz, “An Hour”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I try to see what the dream might be referring to - because the information in the world is being interpreted by my brain which only has the concepts derived from our five senses. So I think of the sequences in my dream as my brain doing its very best to process information in a way it knows I can deal with.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Thinking, Brain

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

  Jim Morrison

  Sex, Mystical Experiences, Mystical

  17 Copy quote

• The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Brother, Ocean, Hero

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am sure that there is a lot more going on in the objective real world than we can monitor with our five senses. I think dreams allow us to engage with the real world and monitor the way it is acting on us.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "The Edge of Dreaming". Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts, www.pbs.org. August 24, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If love is blind, patriotism has lost all five senses.

  William Blum

  Love Is, Blind, Lost

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.11, Zed Books

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• "Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.

  Roger E. Olson

  Reality, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Eye, Men

  4 Copy quote

• All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Cutting, Men

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.172, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each soul has it's own path. Children are young personalities but they are not always young souls. Incarnation into the domain of the five senses is a dramatic act of spiritual responsibility. Neonates are great souls and so I honor their paths. I do the best that I can, but the best that I can do is to change myself. To make myself a citizen like I want others to be.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Children, Responsibility

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Blessing, Men, Perfect

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.134

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our kitchen is a kitchen that makes food designed to be tasted with the five senses and it requires concentration to appreciate all that we want to express.

  Ferran Adria

  Appreciate, Kitchen, Want

  21 Copy quote

• Carnal reason is an enemy to faith: it is ever crossing and contradicting it. It will never be well with thee, Christian, so long as thou art swayed by carnal reason, and you rely more upon thy five senses, than upon the four Evangelists. As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.

  Thomas Brooks

  Christian, Art, Believe

  18 Copy quote

• I do not believe there is any such sixth sense. A man with a good sense of direction is, to me, quite simply an able pathfinder - a natural navigator - somebody who can find his way by the use of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch - the senses he was born with) developed by the blessing of experience and the use of intelligence. All that pathfinder needs is his senses and knowledge of how to interpret nature's signs.

  Harold Gatty

  Believe, Blessing, Men

  5 Copy quote

• That is my best friend because it is a gift of the creator to Africans. It is a spirit. Marijuana has five fingers of creation...it enhances all your five senses.

  Fela Kuti

  Marijuana, My Best Friend, Spirit

  266 Copy quote

• Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

  Coventry Patmore

  God, Mistake, Knows

  1896 The Rod, the Root, and the Flower,'Aurea Dicta', no.142.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.

  John Barth

  Art, Mean, Men

  John Barth (1984). “The Friday book: essays and other nonfiction”, Putnam Pub Group

  4 Copy quote

  Show source