246 Quotes About Senses

The Romantic movement among other things was concerned to bring back into permitted human experience occasions when the 'invisible but real world' was of paramount importance, when the non-visual or dark senses were operating as organs of knowledge.

There are other senses for other forms of all things.

Can you taste the flavor of papaya and coconut? Can you hear the wind whistling through the palm trees on the beach? Can you see the arc of the horizon, where the Pacific Ocean meets the sky?

In an important sense, therefore, Benjamin’s biography describes the construction of a map not meant for the eye.

But must we always relate everything to the senses?' asked the Bishop. 'Everything, my friend,' said Durcet. 'They alone must guide us in all our actions in life, because their voice alone is truly imperious.

Life must be reinvented! A mass elevation of the senses is of need...This was God's intention.

Dreams are sweet until that become a reality. Otherwise, that break you, and your senses.

And so I had to turn corners inside-out with my eyes and to read the third side of a book's page, seeking in futility to gaze at what I could then touch with none of my senses.

The universe lies to our senses, and they lie to us, and how can we ourselves be anything but liars? For myself, I trust neither the message nor the messenger; neither what I am told, not what I see. There may be truth somewhere but it never gets down to me.