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• The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.

  William Blake

  Cities, Names, Rivers

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.204, Delphi Classics

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• A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Smell, Appreciate, Feelings

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• It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . . The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Beautiful, Laughter, Reality

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.124, Open Road Media

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• Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Logic, Reason

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• The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Friends, Heart, No Friends

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• The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fiction, Preference, Novel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.247, Harvard University Press

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• War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Saving Private Ryan

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

  Steve Kubby

  Brain, Mind, Visionaries

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• There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Hands, Medicine

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• Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Strong, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also one, two, or three, or many other senses, may not be wanting?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Animal, Sight, Two

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.275

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• I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Hands

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

  William James

  Order, Mind, Experience

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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• An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

  Joseph Addison

  Design, Attention, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.16

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• The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

  Plutarch

  Elude, Instant, Offers

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• Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wings, Reason, Following

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through involution, toward the Soul, which in turn desires to emerge and embrace you in its glory.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Journey, Self

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.175, Rodale

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• For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Real, Medicine

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.26, Basic Books

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• We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

  George Lakoff

  Philosophy, Medicine, Brain

  George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (1999). “Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought”, p.18, Basic Books

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• The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

  Annie Dillard

  Real, Fall, Rope

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Organs, Exterior

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.46, Editorial MAXTOR

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• The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Race, Perfection, Unseen

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.48, Editorial MAXTOR

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• Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

  William Butler Yeats

  Custody

  Letter to Ellen O'Leary, February 03, 1889.

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• Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Sleep, Night

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• It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Character, Five Senses

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.15, Open Road Media

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