Senses Quotes - Page 8

• I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

  Arthur Frommer

  Eye, Cities, Paris

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• The sacred gift of prayer is in the right hand of our Savior, and according to the measure that you empty yourself of yourself, that is of love of your senses and of your own will, and make progress in rooting yourself in holy humility, to that extent the Lord will speak to your heart.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Prayer, Heart, Humility

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• Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk.

  Garrison Keillor

  Car, Comfort, Dining

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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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• Autism is the filter through which all my other senses must pass, both input and output.

  Stuart Duncan

  Autism, Filters, Input

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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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• A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

  Benjamin Spock

  Attitude, Father, Boys

  Benjamin Spock (1992). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care”

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• He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.

  Saadi

  Wine, Night, Judgement

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.111, Innovations and Information

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• We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

  John Flavel

  Understanding, Distinguished, Brutes

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.497

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• In addition to all its rich offerings to the body and its five senses, gardening engages the mind.

  Allen Lacy

  Offering, Mind, Gardening

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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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• Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mind, Deny

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2015

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• If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is certain that in that very act he will be struck in his mind and senses by some more divine breath and will recognize that the books he reads have not been produced in a human way, but are words of God.

  Origen

  Book, Writing, Mind

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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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• Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Christian, Taken, Government

  "Custodians of chaos", www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?

  Rene Descartes

  Way, Knows, Seems

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• 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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• Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Distance, Thinking, Discovery

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• I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Long, Common Sense

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• To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Thinking, Limits

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• There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

  Jack McDevitt

  Silence, Unwelcome

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.159, Penguin

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• There must be something about art... almost all cultures have done art. It's a refining of the senses, which are there to keep us alive. As far as we know, no other animals do that.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Animal, Culture

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• Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mind, Possibility, Seeing

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• The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Sweet, Heart, Humble

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• Dogs have a sense of smell much greater than ours and they're much faster than we are. We have fairly dull senses, fairly slow locomotion. In our Olympic trials, we celebrate speeds that would be an embarrassment to a bird or a dog or another animal.

  Neal Barnard

  Dog, Animal, Smell

  Source: therumpus.net

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