Senses Quotes - Page 6

• We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

  John Flavel

  Understanding, Distinguished, Brutes

  John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.497

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• The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.

  William James

  Memories, Passion, Men

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Nuvision Pubns

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• Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.

  David Limbaugh

  Political, Too Late, Helping

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• Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reality, Thinking, Five Senses

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

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• Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.

  Michael J. Rosen

  Past, Way, Culling

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• If someone considers the prophetic writings with all the diligence and reverence they are worth, while he reads and examines with great care, it is certain that in that very act he will be struck in his mind and senses by some more divine breath and will recognize that the books he reads have not been produced in a human way, but are words of God.

  Origen

  Book, Writing, Mind

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• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth.

  William Harvey

  Wise, Sight, Giving

  William Harvey, Edward Jenner (2010). “Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology”, p.66, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Faith never requires us to crucify our minds or deny our senses.

  R. C. Sproul

  Mind, Deny

  Twitter post from Sep 04, 2015

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• I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

  Walt Whitman

  Law, Evil, Action

  Walt Whitman, Christopher Castiglia, Glenn Hendler (2007). “Franklin Evans, Or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times”, p.68, Duke University Press

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• Give up all desire for enjoyment in earth or heaven. Control the organs of the senses and control the mind. Bear every misery without even knowing that you are miserable. Think of nothing but spiritual freedom.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Taken, Character, Mean

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• Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not another, then you are not reflecting true love for all creatures on earth, only a deficiency in your senses. The light of love sees no walls.

  Suzy Kassem

  Wall, Animal, Light

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• All the defects are obstacles that anchors the mind to the external senses.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Anchors, Mind, Obstacles

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• They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

  Galileo Galilei

  Opinion, Observation, Manifest

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• Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, One Day, Five Senses

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Research at the subatomic quantum level reveals an invisible connection between all particles and all members of a given species. This oneness is being demonstrated in remarkable scientific discoveries. The findings show that physical distance, what we think of as empty space, does not preclude a connection by invisible forces. Obviously there exist invisible connections between our thoughts and our actions. We do not deny this, even though the connection is impervious to our senses.

  Wayne Dyer

  Distance, Thinking, Discovery

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• There is nothing that overwhelms the senses quite like an unwelcome silence.

  Jack McDevitt

  Silence, Unwelcome

  Jack McDevitt (2003). “Chindi”, p.159, Penguin

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• Smells are the fallen angels of the senses.

  Helen Keller

  Angel, Smell, Fallen

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• I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

  Jamie Farr

  Roles, Broadway

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• Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

  Poul Anderson

  Giving, Flow, Action

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• To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

  Alan Watts

  Morning, Thinking, Limits

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• Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Way, Awareness, Force

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• I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Long, Common Sense

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• The word surrender sounds horrible to one who wants to enjoy his senses but very sweet to one who has a humble heart.

  Radhanath Swami

  Sweet, Heart, Humble

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• Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mind, Possibility, Seeing

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