Sensations Quotes - Page 22

• It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Passion, Light

  "The Monkey Grammarian". Book by Octavio Paz, Ch. 2, 1974.

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• Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.

  Octavio Paz

  Memories, Eye, Thinking

  Octavio Paz (1981). “The Monkey Grammarian”, p.4, Arcade Publishing

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• Vogue is not a practical magazine, it provides sensations, feeling, moods, you like the photos.

  Franca Sozzani

  Feelings, Magazines, Mood

  Source: wwd.com

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• I've always had the sensation that people in America are always avant-garde. Very attentive to all the new innovations. But it's very specialized.

  Sergio Leone

  America, People, Innovation

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?

  Isaac Newton

  Air, Rays, Sound

  "Opticks". Book Isaac Newton, Query 13, 1704.

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• It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.

  Robert Owen

  Character, Men, Intelligent

  "A Development of the Principles & Plans on which to establish self-supporting Home Colonies". Book by Robert Owen, 1841.

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• Not bodies produce sensations, but element-complexes (sensation-complexes) constitute the bodies. When the physicist considers the bodies as the permanent reality, the 'elements' as the transient appearance, he does not realise that all 'bodies' are only mental symbols for element-complexes (sensation-complexes).

  Ernst Mach

  Reality, Doe, Elements

  "The Analysis of Sensations". Book by Ernst Mach, 1897.

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• Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Ideas, Mind, Recognition

  "Materialism and Empirio-criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy (1908)". Book by Vladimir Lenin. Introduction. Collected Works, Volume 14, www.marxists.org.

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• European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films

  Charlotte Rampling

  Character, Directors, Depth

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• It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious

  Esther Williams

  Water, Audience, Invited

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• Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

  Philip Guston

  Memories, Artist, Magic

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.278, Univ of California Press

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• I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Want, Condensation

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• Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Wonderful, Lost

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.28, Diversion Books

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• Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

  Vanna Bonta

  Love, Sex, Bridges

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• Carried by light, images remain while sensation is so evanescent as to be always beyond belief.

  Rae Armantrout

  Light, Belief

  Rae Armantrout (2010). “Versed”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press

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• The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.

  Annie Dillard

  Greed, Spirit, Writing Life

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• Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Pain, Real, Grief

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.50

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• When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ego, Brain, Substance

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.864, Manonmani Publishers

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• To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.

  Jacob Epstein

  Reality, Sculpture, Way

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.33, Read Books Ltd

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• For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

  Steven Seagal

  Thinking, Uncontrollable Urge, Addiction

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• You know, I think the people I feel saddest for are the ones who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder, who felt their emotions floating away and just didn't care. I guess that's what's scariest: not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Caring, Loss, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “Player One”, p.99, Random House

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• What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

  C. S. Lewis

  Soul, Would Be, Matter

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a shudder go through me, then the shudder was transformed into a sensation of wakefulness.

  Tayeb Salih

  Mother, Water, Naked

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• Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence.

  Sam Vaknin

  Hate, Omnipotence, Narcissism

  Sam Vaknin (2014). “A to Z of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder Encyclopedia: The Narcissism Bible”, p.714, Narcissus Publishing

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• Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

  Mike Caro

  Fall, Humility, Ladders

  Mike Caro (1984). “Caro on Gambling”, Lyle Stuart

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