Quotes 41 till 60 of 72.
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
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Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
The shorter novels and stories of Carson McCullers (1972) -
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.
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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
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The war existing between the senses and reason.
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There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
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There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt.
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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
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There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. But one day I came to my senses, and I think I was lucky because a lot of people don't.
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Thus we feign the continu’d existence of the perceptions of our senses, to remove the interruption; and run into the notion of a soul, and self, and substance, to disguise the variation.
A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) -
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: ''It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ''
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We live on the leash of our senses.
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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