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“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.”

Stills Feelings Desire Felt Natural Strange Comfortable News Understood Skins Envy Senses Vanity Enjoyed Scar Dirt Intriguing Still In Love New Feelings

Author:Jim Morrison

“If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.”

Ifs World Should Reality Nature Doubt Changed Leaving Creator Senses Strict Another World

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Faith is a belief in things that your senses have not experienced and your mind does not understand, but you have touched them in other ways and have accepted them. It is easy for one to speak of faith; it is another thing to live it.”

Way Mind Doe Faith Belief Speak Easy Accepted Senses Touched

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.”

Reason Parent Animal Extraordinary Senses Irrational Superiority Offspring Deficiency

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“Development is where my heart is focused because eating is the only thing that we do that involves all the senses. We eat with our eyes and our ears and our noses.”

Heart Eye Development My Heart Eating Ears Focused Senses Noses

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!”

Mind Senses Superiors

Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“Even to the sage who's doing Sahaja Samadhi, the great guru, I'd say: "Hey buddy, you know, I like the robes and everything, but remember, you're only touching infinity. And if you claim to be doing more, I think you're pretty much in the senses and the body and the mind because infinity is endless."”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Body Remember Teacher Claims Senses Endless Hey Enlightened Touching Infinity Sage Guru Buddy Remember You Remembers You Robes Samadhi You Re Pretty

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your life is based around your being comfortable, you're not very comfortable. You suffer quite a bit - becuase in the realm of the senses there is not only pleasure, but there is pain.”

Ifs Pain Life Is Suffering Bits Pleasure Comfortable Yoga Karma Senses Realms Karma Yoga

Author:Frederick Lenz

“During the fight my senses dim, and basically, I don't feel any pain.”

Feels Pain Fighting Senses Mma

Author:Fedor Emelianenko

“To be psychic is to see without the senses and to keep the thoughts and emotions of others out of your awareness.”

Emotion Seeing Awareness Senses Psychics Thoughts And Emotions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.”

Feels Home Enjoy Alive Towns Delight Senses Chinese Small Things Scenery Home Town

Book:A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

Source: A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Journey of Love and Loss in the Himalayas

“In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.”

World Made Lying Jesus Differences Drink Taste Senses New World Nazareth

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.”

Identity Mouths Senses Block Dust Settling Taoism Tao Primal Knots Blunt Glare Tao Te Ching Leadership Tao Te Ching Tao Ching Sharpness

Author:Laozi

“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.”

Men World Sometimes Feelings Fall Memories Poor Boys Stones Senses Realms Burned Refusal Paralyzed Poor Boy

Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

“I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.’ ‘Goodness,’ I babbled, ‘but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you’re not going to feel any better all day.”

Feels Mean Morning Knowing Imagine Drink Goodness Drinking Alcohol Senses Awful Blunt

Book:Don't Point that Thing at Me

Source: Don't Point that Thing at Me

“ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.”

People Doe Eye Process Planets Taste Hearing Senses Als Cognitive

Author:Steve Gleason

“Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.”

Five Duty Equal Importance Senses Five Senses Sixth Sense

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation; and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.”

Understanding Creation Like You Creatures Evidence Refuse Conviction Creator Senses Not Afraid Assertion Admitting

Book:Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“Cities with all their advantages have something hostile to liberal learning, the seductions are so subtle and accost the senses so openly on all sides.”

Sides Cities Advantage Senses Subtle Seduction Hostile

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.”

Way Flesh Senses Impression Pulling Stopping Cords

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.”

Needs Mind Persons Form Values Individual Known Roots Logic Missions Senses Primitive

Book:Autobiography of values

Source: Autobiography of values

“I can't get used to the ease with which one covers the world today. It's no longer an effort--Pole--equator--oceans--continents--it's just a question of which way you point the nose of your plane. The pure joy of flight as an art has given way to the pure efficiency of flight as a science.... Science is insulating man from life -- separating his mind from his senses. The worst of it is that it soon anaesthetizes his senses so that he doesn't know what he's missing.”

Knows Men World Way Mind Art I Can Today Used Joy Given Effort Worst Missing Pure Ocean Senses Flight Planes Ease Noses Continents Efficiency World Today Separating Pure Joy Equator

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.”

Mind Ends Path Mystery Areas Disappear Decades Senses Contact Accomplishment Vehicle

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a poverty of language, such triteness, that it is a shrunken, diminished world we enter, poorer and more formless than the poorest cripple deprived of ears and eyes and tongue. The writer's responsibility is to increase, develop our senses, expand our vision, heighten our awareness and enrich our articulateness.”

World Writing Eye Today Language Fiction Responsibility Vision Poverty Roles Awareness Ears Increase Tongue Senses Deprived Poorest Cripples

Author:Anais Nin

“Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having.”

Has Beens Made Stupid Objects Intellectual Property Senses Replaced Private Property

Book:Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

Source: Marx's Concept of Man: Including 'Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts'

“The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were) the flux of the senses by the permanence and self-circling energies of the reason, gives birth to a system of symbols, harmonious in themselves, and consubstantial with the truths of which they are the conductors.”

Giving Self Reason Energy Imagination Birth Senses Symbols Harmonious Permanence Conductor Flux Incorporating

Book:Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.”

World Mean Sometimes Senses Mysterious Limitation Exploring

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“Airport carpets are so much richer to both the senses and the intellect.”

Intellect Senses Airports Carpet

Author:George Pendle

“Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.”

Thinking Knows Mean Inspiration Senses You Think You Know Impressionism

Author:Michael McClure

“The senses are our bridge between the incomprehensible and the comprehensible.”

Senses Bridges

Author:August Macke

“Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.”

Needs Senses Exposed His Love Awakened

Book:Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change

Source: Recovering Redemption: A Gospel-Saturated Perspective on How to Change

“Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.”

Ifs Real Matter Earth Saws Movement Planets Accepted Senses Trustworthy Copernicus

Book:Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

Source: Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man

“Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.”

Knows God Mistake Five Senses God Knows Knowing God Five Senses

Author:Coventry Patmore

“What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.”

Thinking Reality Elements Concepts Senses Data Fixed Hierarchy Synthesis Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Le toucher est le plus de mystificateur de tous les sens, a' la diffe rence de la vue, qui est le plus magique. Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, different from sight which is the most magical.”

Different Sight Senses Plus

Author:Roland Barthes

“Things can give pleasure to the mind and senses, but only love can give pleasure to the heart. And ultimately, that is what we are looking for.”

Giving Mind Heart Pleasure Senses Only Love

Author:Radhanath Swami

“Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.”

Mind Book Sometimes Seems Age Action Politics Periods Speech Senses Reaching Persuasion Gross Moderates Demonstration Discarded Stimulation Disruptive

Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.”

Earth Existence Effects Objects Degrees Perception Awakening Senses Power Of Thought

Book:Formal Logic

Source: Formal Logic

“We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.”

Mind Long Spiritual Realizing Consciousness Fantasy Senses Planes Proceeding Spiritual Beings

Author:Ram Dass

“I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.”

Fashion Clothes Intellectual Senses Exquisite

Author:Elizabeth Heyert

“As a painter, I realized that what we see is just manifestation of unseen power. Since then [1958 Coup in Iraq], reality started to take another form in my mind. Hence, I was aware of deception of our senses.”

Mind Reality Form Iraq I Realized Senses Painter Deception Manifestation Unseen Coups

Author:Ala Bashir

“It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms or qualities, but that he refine his senses through an exercise of attention, comparison and judgment.”

Knows Children Form Attention Quality Color Exercise Judgment Senses Comparison Repetition

Author:Maria Montessori

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change.”

Thinking Heart Pain Streets Ready Senses Noise Leap Hug Harmonious Absorbing Wrapping Bodily Pain Wrapping Up

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“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

“The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.”

Suffering Sin Cities Hell Members Dues Senses Punishment Torment Employed Abyss Unspeakable Sinning

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“The ordinary person senses the greatness of the odds against him even without thought or analysis, and he adapts his attitudes unconsciously. A huge passivity has settled on industrial society. For people carried about in mechanical vehicles, earning their living by waiting on machines, listening much of the waking day to canned music, watching packaged movie entertainment and capsulated news, for such people it would require an exceptional degree of awareness and an especial heroism of effort to be anything but supine consumers of processed goods.”

“The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.”

World Source Blessed Senses Vulgar Crave Blessed Life

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the chance.”

Ifs Stills Dies Chance Details Senses

Book:Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes

Source: Truckers: The First Book of the Nomes

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