Senses Quotes

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

There is nothing besides a spiritual world; what we call the world of the senses is the Evil in the spiritual world, and what we call Evil is only the necessity of a moment in our eternal evolution.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.