Senses Quotes - Page 38

• Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

  Henry Fuseli

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ideas

  James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.

  Melanie Brown

  Feels Right, Feels, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

  David Cook

  Rocks, Saws, Shows

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

  Dana Carvey

  Country, Art, Team

  "Dana Carvey talks parenting, “SNL” and Carlmont High cross country". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, blog.sfgate.com. April 30, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

  Adi Shankara

  Heart, Meditation, Mind

  376 Copy quote

• One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

  George Crumb

  Past, Historical, Musical

  4 Copy quote

• Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.

  Jack Dorsey

  Cities, Fascination, Right Now

  5 Copy quote

• All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

  Ann Druyan

  Important

  4 Copy quote

• Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.

  Charles Dance

  Writing, Next Day, Conclusion

  7 Copy quote

• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Writing, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• My senses have been stripped, my hands can't feel to grip, my toes to numb to step, wait only for my boot heels to be wandering.

  Bob Dylan

  Reality, Hands, Waiting

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My senses tell me hubba.

  Todd Rundgren

  Compliment

  Song: Onomatopoeia, Album: Hermit of Mink Hollow, 1978

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Use all of your senses.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Use

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.139, Atlantic Books Ltd

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Children need nature for the healthy development of their senses, and therefore, for learning and creativity.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Children, Creativity

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.50, Atlantic Books Ltd

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The five senses are all correlated, the sixth and seventh is how you elevate it.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Inspirational, Five Senses, Five

  Song: Rise 'n' Shine

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of mankind has so long wandred, because they rely'd upon the strength of humane Reason alone, have begun anew to correct all Hypotheses by sense, as Seamen do their dead Reckonings by Cœlestial Observations; and to this purpose it has been their principal indeavour to enlarge and strengthen the Senses by Medicine, and by such outward Instruments as are proper for their particular works.

  Robert Hooke

  Eye, Science, Medicine

  37 Copy quote

• The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.

  Rene Descartes

  Science, Depth, Body

  8 Copy quote

• 'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

  John Wilkins

  Science, Compass, Certain

  52 Copy quote

• Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

  Joseph Addison

  Science, Sight, Perfect

  The Spectator Vol. V No. 411 (1712)

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• The only census of the senses, so far as I am aware, that ever before made them more than five, was the Irishman's reckoning of seven senses. I presume the Irishman's seventh sense was common sense; and I believe that the possession of that virtue by my countrymen-I speak as an Irishman.

  Lord Kelvin

  Believe, Science, Common Sense

  9 Copy quote

• It is odd to think that there is a word for something which, strictly speaking, does not exist, namely, "rest." We distinguish between living and dead matter; between moving bodies and bodies at rest. This is a primitive point of view. What seems dead, a stone or the proverbial "door-nail," say, is actually forever in motion. We have merely become accustomed to judge by outward appearances; by the deceptive impressions we get through our senses.

  Max Born

  Moving, Science, Thinking

  Max Born (2013). “The Restless Universe”, p.1, Courier Corporation

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

  Jane Campion

  Keys, Musical, Emotion

  "How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano". Interview with Anna Tims, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

  Doris Humphrey

  Philosophy, Unique, Medicine

  30 Copy quote

• The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

  8 Copy quote

• Somaaesthetics can be provisionally defined a the critical meliorative study of one's experience and use of one's body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation (aesthesis) and creative self-fashioning. It is therefore also devoted to the knowledge, discourses, and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it.

  Richard Shusterman

  Appreciation, Philosophy, Self

  5 Copy quote