Senses Quotes

“I need a minute.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“Ma should marry our bio dad, and he can be our friend  but not our dad. You’re our dad, Da. And we’re the Furies; you can’t split us.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.”
― Wallace Stegner, On Teaching and Writing Fiction

“The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

“Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”
― Karl Pearson

“That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting with their loud colors or whispering with their seeds; rocks snag lichen spores from the air and shelter spiders under their flanks; clouds converse with the fathomless blue and metamorphose into one another; they spill rain upon the land, which gathers in rivulets and carves out canyons…”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and organize outward stimuli within the narrow range necessary for physical survival within our environment, it does not necessarily tell us very much about the nature of that environment. People, in other words, have little access to the possible world existing beyond their sensations.”
― Cruce Stark, The Haunted dusk: American supernatural fiction, 1820-1920

“The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge.”
― Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

“The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, "encased in darkness and silence," at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, sounds, and smells. Their reports arrive at different rates, often long out of date, yet the details are all stitched together into a seamless chronology. The difference is that Kublai Khan was piecing together the past. The brain is describing the present—processing reams of disjointed data on the fly, editing everything down to an instantaneous now. How does it manage it?”
― Burkhard Bilger

“A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist”
― Fernand Leger

“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not.”
― Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

“Senses disabled by fear.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“There are other senses for other forms of all things.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“The human senses are known to be astoundingly unreliable instruments, easily deceived and fallible. Would you bet everything on shoddy detection equipment? That’s what the materialists have done. Above all, they sneer at the concept of the soul (and mind) because it is something that cannot be detected with the human senses. Would the cosmic mathematical mind reject the soul? The numbers zero and infinity rationally characterize it. Why would zero and infinity be forbidden? Just because the human senses aren’t configured to detect them? Why should the dubious human senses be the determinants of what is mathematically and logically permitted to exist? Human senses are the products of evolution and are designed to allow us to live in this world; they did not evolve as organs of truth to allow us to determine the fundamental nature of reality. […] Most people alive today are irrational. Animals are irrational. […] Even scientists have demonstrated that they will force reason and logic to obey the senses rather than force the senses to obey reason and logic. The question of the existence of the soul is one for reason, not for the human senses. Lack of evidence is not evidence of absence.”
― Mike Hockney, The God Equation

“Reality is that external system of influences which come filtered through my sensory inputs as perceptions. It is also that external system of influences which are beyond my sensory range, however, because I cannot perceive them, the are 'unreal' to me. Subjectively speaking, of course.”
― David Gerrold, When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One

“There is a place in us all, that creates fantasy and dreams, and we use this place often, for reality is too cruel and severe to be digested, by our sensitive senses”
― Kenan Hudaverdi

“English: "Some ‘nonsenses’ are misunderstood meanings."

Česky: „Některé ‚nesmysly‘ jsou nepochopené smysly.”
― Sebastián Wortys

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it”
― Charles R. Swindoll

“Contemplate without thinking. Be certain only in your uncertainty, content to be completely incomplete. Stop the rush. Slow down time. Breathe and notice. Slow down everything. Let it all be. Shut off the noise. Hush. Relax. Seize this higher moment. Reconnect. Feel and sense what surrounds you. Listen to all the colours of light whisper as they envelope you. See the melody and harmony that float about unnoticed. Taste the solitude of all this wonderment. Smell the beautiful silence. Now discover your peaceful serenity. Then, reach out and touch your faith with all your senses. This is my world. Awaken!”
― Bodhi Smith, Bodhi Simplique Part Sept

“Drag should be a delight for all the senses, Lady Lady always said.”
― Holly Stars, Murder in the Dressing Room

“He smells with his thumb and eats with his rear; you wouldn’t want to know what he does with his ear.”
― GLEN NESBITT, Joe the Alien

“As Meredith walked home through the trees, she noticed how her filter on the world had changed. There were slightly different colors, different smells, an altered feeling. The darkness radiated gem-like hues, and she could smell each part of the forest down to the sweet, earthy beetle shells and musky tree nuts. She felt grounded with a good dirt--- the best, most-fertile soil. Solid, clear, awake. Rooted to the earth. The opposite of her old, hazy self.”
― Alli Dyer, Strange Folk

“Even if myriad beings existed without senses, they would all be mute.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“Nothing exists in the way we see it except senses, thoughts, and ideas that are able and capable of experiencing the world.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“There is no energy or matter as a physical force of nature per se.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, ABSOLUTE

“All you need to do is decide that you have something you’ve been wanting. It doesn’t matter what your senses are telling you. What does your mind tell you? If you can see it in your head, you have it. Just decide that it’s already yours. It’ll have no choice but to reveal itself.”
― Robin S. Baker