Senses Quotes - Page 17

• As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

  Harry Seidler

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Harry Seidler (1963). “Houses, buildings and projects: 1955/63. Maisons, réalisations et projets. Häuser, Bauten und Grossprojekte”

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• This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

  Richard Louv

  Use, Enough, States

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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• We tend to block off many of our senses when we're staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses.

  Richard Louv

  Block, Staring, Screens

  "Going on a Techno-Fast: Taking a Break From the Virtual World" by Richard Louv, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Nature-deficit disorder describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses. The disorder can be detected in individuals, families, and communities.

  Richard Louv

  Emotional, Community, Attention

  Richard Louv (2008). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.36, Algonquin Books

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• As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.

  Richard Louv

  Needs, Natural, Surroundings

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• The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.

  Abraham Flexner

  World

  Abraham Flexner (2017). “The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Powerful, Simple, Sight

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “This Earth of Mankind”, William Morrow

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• You're bored? That's because you keep your senses awake and your soul asleep.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Bored, Soul, Awake

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• Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

  Barry Hughart

  Darkness, Brain, Tiny

  Barry Hughart (2011). “The Story of the Stone”, p.194, Spectra

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• Just because it's on the radio doesn't mean we have to suspend belief in the evidence of our senses.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Radio, Belief

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

  Basilea Schlink

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can he have the true vision of the beauty that is everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Past, Self, Lust

  Rabindranath Tagore (2006). “Sadhana the Realization of Life”, p.109, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.

  Philip Caputo

  War, Fighting, Men

  Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.327, Macmillan

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• Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.

  Walter Russell

  Life, Men, Soul

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• A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Intelligent, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.434

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• And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, People, Judging

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• It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.

  George Santayana

  Stupid, Ideas, Brain

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.392, 谷月社

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• Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Judging, Doe, Judgment

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• There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  Skins, World, Body

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• A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Selfish, Keys, Track

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Strong, Eye

  William Gurnall (2008). “Extracts from the Writings of William Gurnall”, p.45, Scripture Truth

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• Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Recognition

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.613

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• All things issue from it; all things return to it. To find the origin, trace back the manifestations. When you recognize the children and find the mother, you will be free of sorrow. If you close your mind in judgements and traffic with desires, your heart will be troubled. If you keep your mind from judging and aren't led by the senses, your heart will find peace. Seeing into darkness is clarity. Knowing how to yield is strength. Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  Laozi

  Mother, Children, Heart

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• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

  Saraha

  Inspiring, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise man has realised this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Money

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