Senses Quotes - Page 4

• I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Real, Moving, Character

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• You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

  Cheech Marin

  Promotion, Resources, Bigger

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. December 22, 2008.

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• I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

  Arthur Frommer

  Eye, Cities, Paris

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• Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.

  Robert Barron

  Mind, Matter, Body

  Robert Barron (2011). “Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith”, p.4, Image

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• The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dream, Children, Character

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• Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

  Ernst Mach

  Mean, Arriving, Use

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• The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

  John Locke

  Simple, Reflection, Ideas

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• Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!

  Manly Hall

  Ignorance, Men, Knowing Nothing

  Manly P. Hall (2010). “The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy”, p.604, Courier Corporation

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• To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Dream, Disease, Spirit

  Mary Baker Eddy (2007). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• The ultimate dreamer is Vishnu floating on the cosmic Milky Ocean, couched upon the coils of the abyssal serpent Ananta, the meaning of whose name is Unending. In the foreground stand the five Pandava brothers, heroes of the epic Mahabharata, with Draupadi, their wife: allegorically, she is the mind and they are the five senses.

  Joseph Campbell

  Brother, Ocean, Hero

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  M. C. Escher

  Reality, World, Virtue

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher,

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• All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

  Aristotle

  People, Desire, Example

  "Metaphysics" by Aristotle, Book I, (980a.21),

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• Faith is acting in the face of contrary evidence. The senses declare, "It cannot be," but Faith shouts above the turmoil, "It is!"

  E. W. Kenyon

  Acting, Faces, Turmoil

  E.W. Kenyon, Don Gossett (2016). “His Word Is Now”, p.16, Whitaker House

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• Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

  Albert Einstein

  Principles, Raw Materials, Firsts

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.21, Broadway Books

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• The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Tolerance, Mind

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• It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification. This is so evidently true with regard to the whole of our existence that all precepts of theology have no other tendency than to enforce a life of faith; a life regulated not by our senses but by our belief; a life in which pleasures are to be refused for fear of invisible punishments, and calamities sometimes to be sought, and always endured, in hope of rewards that shall be obtained in another state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Punishment, May, Rewards

  Samuel Johnson (1801). “Works: ¬The Rambler”, p.223

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• It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?

  James Cameron

  Imagination, Curiosity, Five Senses

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• The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

  Maria Montessori

  World, Way, Explorers

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• Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Ideas, Taste, Realizing

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1995). “The Collected works: Shorter works and fragments”

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• I once found myself conspiring with a British Cabinet Minister as to how we might persuade Her Majesty's Treasury to cough up more money for the British Travel advertising in America. Said he, "Why does any American in his senses spend his vacation in the cold damp of an English summer when he could equally well bask under Italian skies? I can only suppose that your advertising is the answer." Damn right.

  David Ogilvy

  Summer, Italian, Vacation

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Definitions, Creation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.91, Penguin

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• Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, People, Tools

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• Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase.

  Salman Rushdie

  Perception, Lenses, Phrases

  "Imaginary Homelands". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1992.

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• Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.136, Princeton University Press

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• Yet there are those who wonder.  There are those who have gentle stirrings.  And there are those who have stepped upon the beautiful threshold of awareness - all on the verge of perceiving that which there is to see.  To these ones, I say, open  your exquisite senses.  Look with fine clarity into that which is beyond and beneath, within and without.  In these coming critical times, listen to and heed the directives of your spirits that retain the high wisdom you are just now perceiving.

  Mary Summer Rain

  Beautiful, Looks, Spirit

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