Senses Quotes - Page 9

• In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Two, Intellectual

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

  Laura Huxley

  Soul, Age, Way

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses.

  Laura Huxley

  Soul, Speaking Out

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Photographs can be forms of recruitment, ways of bringing the viewer into the military, as it were. In this way, they prepare us for war, even enlist us in war, at the level of the senses, establishing a sensate regime of war.

  Judith Butler

  Military, War, Levels

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• I think we're starved for a life of the senses. We're in the garage, we're in the car, we drive to work, we're in a windowless cubicle that's gray and beige. In a way, it's funny that we consider ourselves an advanced culture, because people who live in so-called primitive environments still enjoy the richness of the smells, colors, and sounds of our world. We all crave that.

  Janet Fitch

  Thinking, Our World, Color

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• I'm repledging myself to human-scale values. As a fiction writer, the best data comes through the senses and is then processed through many revisions. We have to learn to be intelligent assessors of the data coming in to us and what it's doing to our mental process.

  George Saunders

  Intelligent, Data, Fiction

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• Part of Krishna consciousness is trying to tune in all the senses of all the people: to experience God through all the senses, not just by experiencing Him on Sunday, through your knees by kneeling on some hard wooden kneeler in the church.

  George Harrison

  Sunday, People, Church

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• If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.

  George Harrison

  Flower, Listening, Incense

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• We don't belong here, but in the spiritual sky: As l'm fated for the material world, Get frustrated in the material world, Senses never gratified, Only swelling like a tide, That could drown me in the material world.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Sky, Frustrated

  Source: www.prabhupada-books.de

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• I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses: "This poem is kind of important to me. I don't know why, but I'm going to just keep it in the back of my mind." I just kept coming back to it. As I started putting the book together and writing the stories for it, this idea of buzzing as a word kept popping up in my brain.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Book, Writing, Dark

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• The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

  John Medina

  Moments, Recalls

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.

  John Medina

  Color, Smell, Brain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I feel money is power in certain senses. A lot of women out there are just givin' it away. And then there are the women that're selling their bodies. But they chose to do that. But this is how they make their money. And I don't see anything wrong with that.

  Lil' Kim

  Body, Selling, Certain

  "Hardcore Honey: bell hooks Goes on the Down Low with Lil' Kim". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.papermag.com.

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• When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

  Plato

  Men, Two, Desire

  Plato, John M. Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson (1997). “Complete Works”, p.475, Hackett Publishing

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• People vary enormously in how they learn. Some learn through their eyes - by reading but also by responding to all kinds of visual information. Others learn mostly through their ears or touch or other senses.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Reading, Eye, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• "Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.

  Roger E. Olson

  Reality, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

  David Eagleman

  Believe, Mean, Lessons

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.64, Vintage

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• Outside of America, there are many people, myself included, who champion values that, in some senses, could be thought of as traditionally American - the idea that everybody's equal, that the rights of women and men should be the same, that there should be no discrimination on religious or sexual orientation, that democracy and rule of law and due process are the ways in which society should govern themselves and minorities should be cared for.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Men, Rights

  "From Refugees To Politics, Mohsin Hamid Writes The Change He Wants To See". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. March 9, 2018.

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• We live on the leash of our senses.

  Diane Ackerman

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.18, Vintage

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• It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change; when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Motivational, Night, Despair

  Hillary Clinton's remarks at the annual anniversary convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Minneapolis, clintonwhitehouse6.archives.gov. July 13, 1995.

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• My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

  Dane Cook

  Comedy, Sense Of Humor

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• I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

  John Cusack

  Coffee, People, Computer

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• I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

  e. e. cummings

  Philosophy, Medicine, Nerves

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

  Robert Delaunay

  Eye, Mind, Consciousness

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• The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

  Rene Descartes

  Trust, Deceived Us, Hype

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