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1. “We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.”
Douglas Adams
Perception, Reality, Senses, Cognition, Philosophy
5. “Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.” Michel de Montaigne Reason, Senses, Knowledge, Philosophy, Uncertainty
11. “Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.” Edgar Allan Poe Senses, Perception, Memory, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Resonance, Sensory Experience
15. “The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge – and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.” Joseph Campbell Sensory Knowledge, Human Experience, Senses, Knowledge, Experience, Human
17. “Anything is better than the silence when she answered to hands gesturing and was indifferent to the movement of lips. When she saw every little thing and colors leaped smoldering into view. She will forgo the most violent of sunsets, stars as fat as dinner plates and all the blood of autumn and settle for the palest yellow if it comes from her Beloved.” Toni Morrison Silence, Love, Perception, Intimacy, Senses, Connection
26. “For some inexplicable reason the sense of smell does not hold the high position it deserves among its sisters. There is something of the fallen angel about it. When it woos us with woodland scents and beguiles us with the fragrance of lovely gardens, it is admitted frankly to our discourse. But when it gives us warning of something noxious in our vicinity, it is treated as if the demon had got the upper hand of the angel, and is relegated to outer darkness, punished for its faithful service.” Helen Keller Sense Of Smell, Underappreciated Senses, Nature's Fragrance, Olfactory Awareness, Smell, Senses
29. “Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.” Buddha Sensory Control, Disciplined Mind, Thoughtful Actions, Training, Discipline, Senses
30. “It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen...” Michelangelo Creative Variety, Mortal Eyes, Decoration, Painting, Senses, Attention
Senses Quotes by Famous Authors
1. “We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.”
Douglas Adams Perception, Reality, Senses, Cognition, Philosophy
5. “Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.”
Michel de Montaigne Reason, Senses, Knowledge, Philosophy, Uncertainty
11. “Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.”
Edgar Allan Poe Senses, Perception, Memory, Philosophical Insight, Emotional Resonance, Sensory Experience
15. “The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge – and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.”
Joseph Campbell Sensory Knowledge, Human Experience, Senses, Knowledge, Experience, Human
17. “Anything is better than the silence when she answered to hands gesturing and was indifferent to the movement of lips. When she saw every little thing and colors leaped smoldering into view. She will forgo the most violent of sunsets, stars as fat as dinner plates and all the blood of autumn and settle for the palest yellow if it comes from her Beloved.”
Toni Morrison Silence, Love, Perception, Intimacy, Senses, Connection
26. “For some inexplicable reason the sense of smell does not hold the high position it deserves among its sisters. There is something of the fallen angel about it. When it woos us with woodland scents and beguiles us with the fragrance of lovely gardens, it is admitted frankly to our discourse. But when it gives us warning of something noxious in our vicinity, it is treated as if the demon had got the upper hand of the angel, and is relegated to outer darkness, punished for its faithful service.”
Helen Keller Sense Of Smell, Underappreciated Senses, Nature's Fragrance, Olfactory Awareness, Smell, Senses
29. “Train your eyes and ears; train your nose and tongue. The senses are good friends when they are trained. Train your body in deeds, train your tongue in words, train your mind in thoughts. This training will take you beyond sorrow.”
Buddha Sensory Control, Disciplined Mind, Thoughtful Actions, Training, Discipline, Senses
30. “It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen...”
Michelangelo Creative Variety, Mortal Eyes, Decoration, Painting, Senses, Attention
