Sensations Quotes - Page 20

• I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I began to understand what my sensations were, what my mind was doing with tone.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Long, Listening, Mind

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

  Tara Brach

  Jumping, Stories, Body

  Source: www.tarabrach.com

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• They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

  Samuel Johnson

  Future, Looks, Littles

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.228

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• Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

  Epicurus

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• As you are aware, no perceptions obtained by the senses are merely sensations impressed on our nervous systems. A peculiar intellectual activity is required to pass from a nervous sensation to the conception of an external object, which the sensation has aroused. The sensations of our nerves of sense are mere symbols indicating certain external objects, and it is usually only after considerable practice that we acquire the power of drawing correct conclusions from our sensations respecting the corresponding objects.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Practice, Drawing, Perception

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• There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

  Edward Thomson

  Men, Emotion, Rise Above

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.105

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• For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

  Teju Cole

  Writing, Marketing, Novelists

  "My hero: Michael Ondaatje by Teju Cole" by Teju Cole, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

  A. E. Housman

  Art, Thinking, Poetry

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.169, Delphi Classics

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• "It is a sensation not experienced by many mortals," said he, "to be looking into a churchyard on a wild windy night, and to feel that I no more hold a place among the living than these dead do, and even to know that I lie buried somewhere else, as they lie buried here. Nothing uses me to it. A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel."

  Charles Dickens

  Lying, Night, Men

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.234

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• Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Men, Legacy

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Miscellaneous Aphorisms: The Soul of Man”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

  Hamish Bowles

  Memories, Oil, Childhood

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• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Worry, Television

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation

  Henri Matisse

  Color, Trying, Complementary Colors

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.41, Univ of California Press

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• Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

  Bruno Dumont

  Liberty, Sound, Want

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan : 'No God but Cinema'” by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.

  Todd Haynes

  Memories, Imagination, Unlocking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2007.

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• Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Air, Blue, Sky

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by a never-ending quest for joy amidst the thrills of sensation and vice. Vice never leads to virtue. Hate never promotes love. Cowardice never gives courage. Doubt never inspires faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Hate, Yield, Giving

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• The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Soul, Special

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it

  Aristotle

  Soul, Mind, Body

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation.

  Aristotle

  Two, Soul, Movement

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, p.1060, Catholic Way Publishing

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• For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in Sanskrit, is located in the center of the chest, dead center. If you focus there you will feel a warm and tingling sensation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

  Aristotle

  Children, Couple, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.257, Aristotle

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• When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.

  Francis Collins

  Beautiful, Moving, Appreciate

  "Reconciling Science and Religion". "Awake!" magazine, June 8, 2002.

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• Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

  Simon Blackburn

  World, Way, Strange

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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