246 Quotes About Senses

An addition that takes time to depart, and sometimes, never leaves at all. A smell, a touch, thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! .... A pungent of cinnamon, an aroma of a rose, a summer breeze, a sweet smile like a per-fume that lingers on and on... endlessly.

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

Your mind is your hallowed creation chamber, reaching far into the future, creating new realities. Your thoughts shape your mind. Every thought is a good or bad response to the signals your senses pick from the environment.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Recognizing isn't at all like seeing; the two often don't even agree.

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors.

For God to prove himself on demand, physically, would be a grave disappointment, and the strongest Christians should be considerably grateful that he chooses not to do so. The skeptic endlessly demands proof, yet God refuses to insult the true intelligence of man, the '6th sense', the chief quality, the acumen which distinguishes man from the rest of creation, faith.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.