Senses Quotes - Page 29

• The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function.

  Richard Restak

  Essence, Brain, Function

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• .....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

  Eric Jensen

  Brain, Doe, Research

  Eric Jensen (1995). “Brain-based Learning & Teaching”, Brain Store Incorporated

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• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Knowing, Principles, Gathering Data

  Michael Polanyi, Harry Prosch (2008). “Meaning”, p.44, University of Chicago Press

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• Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.

  Robert Kegan

  Gathering Data, Find Me

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• It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use his calculations, or that the senses can verify them, much as if a composer found that sailors could heave better when singing his songs.

  George Santayana

  Song, Art, Math

  George Santayana (2014). “Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  Catherine Webb

  Cutting, Mushrooms, Circles

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• Love is a great thing...which alone maketh every burden light.. Love is watchful, and while sleeping, still keeps watch; though fatigued, it is not weary; though pressed, it is not forced. Love is sincere, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, and manly. Love is humble and upright, not weak, not fickle, nor intent on vain things; sober chaste, steadfast, quiet, and guarded in all the senses.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Marriage, Strong, Humble

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• If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

  Helen Keller

  Hearing, All Alone, Feels

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• When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses.

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Loses

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Those who know don't talk. Those who talk don't know. Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity. Be like the Tao. It can't be approached or withdrawn from, benefited or harmed, honored or brought into disgrace. It gives itself up continually. That is why it endures.

  Laozi

  Block, Dust, Giving

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Philosophy, Expression, Medicine

  Gabrielle Roth, John Loudon (1998). “Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit”, p.29, New World Library

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• That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dream, Eye, Our World

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.115, New World Library

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• Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that.

  Brooke Burke

  Men, Communicate

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• Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Order, Imperfection

  Joseph Butler (1839). “The Whole Works of Joseph Butler ...”

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• God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.

  Joseph Butler

  Passion, Perfect, Affection

  Joseph Butler (2012). “Human Nature and other Sermons”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Fire, Imagination, Soul

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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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• We have a largely materialistic lifestyle characterized by a materialistic culture. However, this only provides us with temporary, sensory satisfaction, whereas long-term satisfaction is based not on the senses but on the mind. That’s where real tranquility is to be found. And peace of mind turns out to be a significant factor in our physical health too.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Long, Mind

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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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• The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

  David Daiches

  Determination, Drinking, Men

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• Even the most astute chefs seek out the assistance of Celine Labaune, owner of Gourmet Attitude, because they know they can rely on her keen senses and deep understanding of the truffle trade.

  Thomas Keller

  Attitude, Deep Understanding, Gourmet

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