“The seeing of objects involves many sources of information beyond those meeting the eye when we look at an object. It generally involves knowledge of the object derived from previous experience, and this experience is not limited to vision but may include the other senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing, and perhaps also temperature or pain.” LooksMayEyePainVisionSeeingInformationObjectsSourcePerspectiveTasteMeetingsHearingSmellSensesTemperature Author:Richard Gregory
“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.” PeopleDoeEyeProcessPlanetsTasteHearingSensesAlsCognitive Author:Steve Gleason
“Good and Evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions, which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different: And diverse men differ not only in their judgment, on the senses of what is pleasant and unpleasant to the taste, smell, hearing, touch, and sight, but also of what is conformable, or disagreeable to Reason, in the actions of the common life. Nay, the same man, in diverse times, differs from himself, and one time praiseth, that is, calleth Good, what another time he dispraiseth, and calleth Evil.” MenDifferentReasonActionEvilNamesCommonTasteJudgmentSightHearingSmellSensesDoctrinePleasantGood And EvilCustomsAppetiteOne TimeTemperDiverseDisagreeableAversionAnother TimeCommon Life Author:Thomas Hobbes
“Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.” EndsJoyForgetLove IsGeniusTasteAnd LoveHearingHolinessNever ForgetPreachingSermonsEloquenceOratory Author:John Angell James
“You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.” WorldRunningAbleUniverseFoundVisionLordPathKingsTasteSpeechHearingIntellectSmellRationality Author:Nicholas of Cusa
“It is good to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it.” KnowsNeedsHeartChildrenLongEyeRememberWealthPleasureMy HeartTasteLong TimeGood ThingsHearingStomachWorldlyWorldly Pleasures Author:Hermann Hesse
“my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings” FeelsMindLittlesDifferentFactsBigsBecomingTasteToolsSightHearingSmellSensualAgonyHittingNeverthelessHelplessExesAlteredStrideScarletIrrevocableLilacChiselsHunkChromeBecoming SomethingTaste And SmellCobalt Author:e. e. cummings
“I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?” NeedsShouldHeartUsePassionLostLosesTasteSightTerrorHearingSmellHonestlyContactShould IMy PassionInquisition Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
“...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray” LooksMomentsBodyEyeCultureLosesMastersTasteRelationDistanceHearingSmellSensesMateriality Author:Luce Irigaray