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“Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.”

Reason Steps Failing Perception Senses

Book:Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

Source: Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

“Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.”

Humans Christ Failing Senses

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.”

Form Fall Grace Failing Sacred Ancient Senses Host Defects Adoration Hail Rite Departing

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.”

Matter Facts Reality Eye Space Results Failing Fingers Senses Substance Perceive Daily Life Blindness Matter Of Fact Spelling

Book:Insecurity of Freedom

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”

Mind Moving Failing Comfort Letters Burden Circles Senses Decay Royal Columns Royal Family Helpers Obituary Postman Grasshoppers

Book:Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: Selected stories of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Every project for me is a risk that I bet on. I believe my senses, and hopefully it will be successful. But sometimes you make it, and sometimes you fail.”

Believe Sometimes I Believe Successful Failing Risk Projects Senses Hopefully Being Successful

Author:Stephen Chow

“The machine not only does it relieve us mechanically of a crushing weight of physical and mental labor; but by the miraculous enhancing of our senses, through its powers of enlargement, penetration and exact measurement, it constantly increases the scope and clarity of our perceptions. It fulfills the dream of all living creatures by satisfying our instinctive craving for the maximum of consciousness with a minimum of effort! Having embarked upon so profitable a path, how can Mankind fail to pursue it?”