Quotes: Senses

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don’t depend on information coming in from the senses.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.