Senses Quotes - Page 5

• You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

  Cheech Marin

  Promotion, Resources, Bigger

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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• Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

  Robert Barron

  Mind, Matter, Body

  Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.4, Image

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• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

  Manly Hall

  Ignorance, Men, Knowing Nothing

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.604, Courier Corporation

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• To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Dream, Disease, Spirit

  Mary Baker Eddy (2007). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  M. C. Escher

  Reality, World, Virtue

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher,

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• All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

  Aristotle

  People, Desire, Example

  "Metaphysics" by Aristotle, Book I, (980a.21),

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• The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Tolerance, Mind

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• Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.136, Princeton University Press

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• I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up more money for the British Travel advertising in America. Said he, "Why does any American in his senses spend his vacation in the cold damp of an English summer when he could equally well bask under Italian skies? I can only suppose that your advertising is the answer." Damn right.

  David Ogilvy

  Summer, Italian, Vacation

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

  E. W. Kenyon

  Acting, Faces, Turmoil

  E.W. Kenyon, Don Gossett (2016). “His Word Is Now”, p.16, Whitaker House

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• Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.

  Ernst Haas

  Painting, Masters, Painting And Poetry

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• Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

  Frank Herbert

  Doors, Long, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.310, Penguin

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• Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each of his senses, in turn, with color, sound, taste, and texture. If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won. The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his senses, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events. He cannot refuse, then, to participate. The logic of events always gives way to the logic of the senses.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fighting, Order, Color

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• Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such,
  Confounds the tongue and makes the senses rough.

  William Shakespeare

  Majesty, Tongue, Rough

  William Shakespeare (1874). “Works”, p.360

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• We are on the earth, and they tell us of heaven; we are human beings, and they tell us of angels and devils; we are matter, and they tell us of spirit; we have five senses whereby to admit truths, and a reasoning faculty by which to build our belief upon them; and they tell us of dreams dreamed thousands of years ago, which our experience flatly contradicts.

  Frances Wright

  Dream, Angel, Years

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789”, p.45

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• The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wall, Spring, Heart

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• We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

  Geoff Rickly

  Artist, Self, White Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.

  William James

  Memories, Passion, Men

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Nuvision Pubns

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• Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about the constant revolutions in technology, he ended that paragraph by saying, "All that is sacred is profaned, all that is solid melts into air, and men and women are forced to face with sober senses our conditions of life and our relations with our kind." We're at that sort of turning point in human history.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Technology, Men, Talking

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• The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

  David Abram

  World, Shifting, Mood

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• There is something complete about Stevie Wonder, and one senses that he is not only exceptionally important today, but will continue to be for as long as he chooses.

  Jon Landau

  Long, Important, Today

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• You shall use all your senses to monitor very carefully all that goes on about you, inside and outside.

  Sandy Woodward

  Use, Goes On, Inside And Outside

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• For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles.

  Plato

  Light, Mind, Oracles

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.175, Booklassic

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• Life and perfection, joy and repose and whatever all the senses desire, lie in the distinguishing spirit, and from it they have everything that they have. Even if the organs lose in power and the life in them decreases in activity, it does not decrease in the distinguishing spirit, from which they receive the same life, when the fault or infirmity is removed.

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Lying, Perfection, Joy

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