Senses Quotes - Page 26

• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Men

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• The Kama Sutra is neither exclusively a sex manual nor, as also commonly used art, a sacred or religious work. It is certainly not a tantric text. In opening with a discussion of the three aims of ancient Hindu life – dharma, artha and kama – Vatsyayana's purpose is to set kama, or enjoyment of the senses, in context. Thus dharma or virtuous living is the highest aim, artha, the amassing of wealth is next, and kama is the least of three.

  Indra Sinha

  Religious, Art, Sex

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• So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

  Georg Feuerstein

  Philosophy, Medicine, Long

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• I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those who judge of things from books or from their senses. Ignorance has so far the advantage over learning; for it can make an appeal to you from what you know; but you cannot re-act upon it through that which it is a perfect stranger to. Ignorance is, therefore, power.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Ignorance, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2452, Delphi Classics

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• The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Law, Patterns

  William Hermanns, Albert Einstein (1983). “Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man”, Branden Publishing Company

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• I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.

  Albert Einstein

  Simple, Cells, Law

  "Einstein and the poet". Book by William Hermanns, p. 64, 1983.

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• What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Couple, Mean, Passion

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, "The voice of freedom is a delusion." Idealism says, "The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream." Vedanta says, "We are free and not free at the same time." That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Dream, Spiritual, Mean

  Swami Vivekananda (1955). “Complete Works”

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• Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Doom And Gloom, People, Perspective

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• Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Art, Math, Emotional

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• Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Fire, Light

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• God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

  Beth Moore

  Sleep, Men, Together

  Beth Moore (2004). “Things Pondered: From the Heart of a Lesser Woman”, p.10, B&H Publishing Group

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• All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Poetry, Records

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• How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Want, Disturbing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2624, Manonmani Publishers

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• Any physical addiction, it doesn't matter how long they've been taking it or how full of it their body is, and addiction, would, between three and thirty days, be completely cleared from the system. Usually closer to three days than thirty days. But it is the emotional craving that must be tended to.

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Emotional, Medicine

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• Do you know what an unwanted bodily condition is? It's a freshly hatched energy-summoning life-giving desire!

  Esther Hicks

  Philosophy, Medicine, Giving

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• I sing the body electric.

  Walt Whitman

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Title of poem (1855)

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• If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

  George A. Sheehan

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soul

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Yield, Madness, Disorder

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• Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

  Kabir

  Mind, Body, Quiet

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• Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Honesty, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

  Maria Montessori

  World, Way, Firsts

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• He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Jesus, Attachment, Wish

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• Thinking is more precious than all five senses.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Thinking, Five Senses, Five

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