Sensations Quotes - Page 25

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Perfection, Innovation, Style

  Yves Saint Laurent (1998). “Yves Saint Laurent and Fashion Photography”, Te Neues Publishing Group

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• The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Anxiety, Disease

  Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Latham Mitchill (1818). “Zoonomia; Or The Laws of Organic Life”, p.112

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• Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Ideas, Doors

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• You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Spring, Winning

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• And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

  Thomas Paine

  Beautiful, Eye, Views

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'm happiest when I feel that several almost opposing sensations are present at the same time.

  David Salle

  Feels, Opposing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.

  Burton Silverman

  Hope, Art, Bridges

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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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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• He who fears death either fears to lose all sensation or fears new sensations. In reality, you will either feel nothing at all, and therefore nothing evil, or else, if you can feel any sensations, you will be a new creature, and so will not have ceased to have life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Reality, Evil, Fear Of Death

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VIII, (58), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

  J. E. H. MacDonald

  Realizing, Paint, Copies

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• Flaubert spoke true: to succeed a great artist must have both character and fanaticism and few in this country are willing to pay the price. Our writers have either no personality and therefore no style or a false personality and therefore a bad style; they mistake prejudice for energy and accept the sensation of material well-being as a system of thought.

  Cyril Connolly

  Country, Mistake, Character

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

  Immanuel Kant

  Real, Reality, Appearance

  Immanuel Kant (2005). “Notes and Fragments”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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• The word "Blue" does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Eye, Men

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• Everything is good in due measure and strong sensations know not measure.

  Anton Chekhov

  Strong, Knows, Dues

  Anton Chekhov's letter to N.M. Lintvareva, February 11, 1889.

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• If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Heart, Sadness

  Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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• I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am - of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain - or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things ... I have no idea whatever of my soul.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Passion, Thinking

  "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.

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• Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.

  Tim Dorsey

  Florida, People, Drug

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• Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ideas, Ends, Shrinks

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.70, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Action, Willpower

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Groups, Use, Common

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.406, Modern Library

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• There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?

  Willa Cather

  Attitude, Numbers, Mind

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.45, U of Nebraska Press

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• Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Favors, Obscenity, Figures

  "Letters of Marshall McLuhan" by Marshall McLuhan, (p. 514), 1987.

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• As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

  June Jordan

  Children, May, Taught

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.133, Basic Books

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• [Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.

  Mervyn Peake

  Dream, Book, Giving

  Mervyn Peake (2011). “The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy”, Random House

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