Sensual Quotes - Page 7

• The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

  Ellen Hunnicutt

  Intellectual, Details, Abstract

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• Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Passion, Perfect

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.10, Macmillan

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• Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Mean

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• For me, the beauty of the blank page, or empty screen,staring up at nine thirty after two cups of coffee and a deep breath remains unique. The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know - apart from the more obvious sensual ones - is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols. Making an idea into an emotion.

  Adam Gopnik

  Coffee, Unique, Ideas

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, People, Sentimental

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). “Intimate notebook, 1840-1841”

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• Beauty, however, must here be understood in its original meaning: as the glow of the true and the good irradiating from every ordered state of being, and not in the patent significance of immediate sensual appeal.

  Josef Pieper

  Patents, States, Appeals

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.30, Ignatius Press

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• For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I think when you think of Donna Karan, you think of sensuality, but it's a different kind of sensuality. A kind of comfort sensuality that is one with your body and the way clothes feel on.

  Donna Karan

  Thinking, Clothes, Dying

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• My approach has always been rather sensual.

  Jil Sander

  Approach

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• The sensual experiences in life are not to be avoided. This is the philosophy of Tantric Buddhism - nor are they particularly to be sought after.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Buddhism, Avoided

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• Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his amorous passions was never diverted from their lawful objects. The proud titles of Imperial greatness were adorned by the tender names of a faithful husband, an indulgent father; his uncle was raised, by his affectionate esteem, to the rank of a second parent.

  Edward Gibbon

  Uncles, Husband, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus”, p.26, 谷月社

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

  Andre Balazs

  Water, Feelings, Essentials

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• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown

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• I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.

  Frank Abagnale

  Beach, Europe, World

  "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2000.

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• To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright

  Bill Bryson

  Purpose, Mouths, Confirmation

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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• There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certain hills, which have become familiar sights and can touch our hearts like happy events. Sometimes indeed the memory goes back towards a forest glade, or a spot on a river bank or an orchard in blossom, glimpsed only once on a happy day, but preserved in our heart.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Memories, Spring, Eye

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• There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Agency, Vision, Quality

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• I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.

  Sharon Stone

  Art, Thinking, Doctors

  "Romancing with Stone". Interview by Ruchel Louis Coetzee, www.newyou.com. April 15, 2016.

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• This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Vibrations

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• Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

  Chip Kidd

  Inspirational, Motivational, Book

  "Chip Kidd Tells TED About The Essence Of Great Book Cover Design", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love Life, Giving, Lovely

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• For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

  Richard Courant

  Philosophy, Science, Experience

  "What is Mathematics?" by Richard Courant, (p. xix), 1941.

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• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied... For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  G. H. Hardy

  Technique, Taught, Mathematics

  "A Mathematician's Apology". Book by G. H. Hardy, 1941.

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• Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Knowledge, Math, Science

  Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”

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• Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Doors, Soul

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.152

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