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• Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Sight, Different

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.50, Editorial MAXTOR

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• To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

  Novalis

  Magic, World, Sacred

  "Bildung in Early German Romanticism" by Frederick C. Beiser. "Philosophers on Education: New Historical Perspectives". Book edited by Amélie Rorty, p. 294, 1998.

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• As we become multi sensory,
  we move beyond the limitations of the five senses
  and we now are evolving to a different mechanism
  in the exploration of physical reality.

  Gary Zukav

  Moving, Reality, Five Senses

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• Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Long, Written

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (2006). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

  Pico Iyer

  Being In Love, Love Is, Littles

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• If you judge after appearances, you will continue to be enslaved by the evidence of your senses.

  Neville Goddard

  Judging, Appearance, Evidence

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Disregard appearances, conditions, in fact all evidence of your senses that deny the fulfillment of your desire. Rest in the assumption that you are already what you want to be, for in that determined assumption you and your Infinite Being are merged in creative unity, and with your Infinite Being all things are possible.

  Neville Goddard

  Creative, Unity, Desire

  Neville Goddard (2013). “The Power of Awareness”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Cultivating whatever gave pleasure to my senses was always the chief business of my life; I have never found any occupation more important. Feeling that I was born for the sex opposite mine, I have always loved it and done all that I could to make myself loved by it. I have also been extravagantly fond of good food and irresistibly drawn by anything which could excite curiosity.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Sex, Opposites, Feelings

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• Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

  Frederick Leboyer

  Skins, Five Senses, Forget

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• Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained--a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.

  Chauncey Wright

  Philosophical, Character, Ideas

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.47, A&C Black

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• All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

  Chauncey Wright

  Character, Hallucinations, Facts

  Chauncey Wright (2000). “The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright”, p.96, A&C Black

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• We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

  William Henry Hudson

  Believe, Years, Decay

  William Henry Hudson (1923). “The Collected Works of W. H. Hudson: A traveller in little things”

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• You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.

  T. D. Jakes

  Mean, People, Decision

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• Design truly is a contact sport. It demands that we bring all of our senses to the task, and that we apply the very best of our thinking, our feeling and our doing to the challenge that we have at hand.

  Tom Wujec

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Gravity is measured by the bottom of the foot; we trace the density and texture of the ground through our soles. Standing barefoot on a smooth glacial rock by the sea at sunset, and sensing the warmth of the sun-heated stone through one's soles, is an extraordinarily healing experience, making one part of the eternal cycle of nature. One senses the slow breathing of the earth.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

  Healing, Sunset, Rocks

  Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.62, John Wiley & Sons

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• If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

  Neil Harbisson

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ifs

  "I listen to color". TED Talks, www.ted.com. June 2012.

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• If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

  Matthew Simpson

  Passing Away, May, Pleasure

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Music can act upon our senses to produce or induce feelings of reverence, humility, fervor, assurance, or other feelings attuned to the spirit of worship.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Music, Humility, Feelings

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Musical, Sound

  The Diary of Anaïs Nin, February 1932.

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• In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

  Joanna Southcott

  Sister, Growing, My Sister

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• The sage governs by emptying senses and filling bellies.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Sage, Filling

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• As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.

  Harry Seidler

  Art, Technology, Thinking

  Harry Seidler (1963). “Houses, buildings and projects: 1955/63. Maisons, réalisations et projets. Häuser, Bauten und Grossprojekte”

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• The normal cut in a theatrical film is anywhere from 3 to 6 seconds. That means thousands of images in a film over a couple of hours. In Visitors the cuts come every 70-plus seconds. The point of view is that the stiller one can be the more open to their senses they become. The whole world is quick right now. If things can be slowed down they stay in memory longer.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Couple, Memories, Mean

  "Interview: Godfrey Reggio Returns With the Breathtaking 4K Film 'Visitors'". Interview with Zachary Wigon, tribecafilm.com. January 24, 2014.

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• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

  Richard Louv

  Reading, Book, Rivers

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

  Richard Louv

  Use, Enough, States

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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