#Senses Quotes

“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.”

“My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.”

“Life is comic or pitiful as soon as the high ends of being fade out of sight, and man becomes near-sighted, and can only attend towhat addresses the senses.”

“The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.”

“The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.”

“The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.”

“Make passionate my sense of hearing.”

“The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.”

“Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.”

“The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.”

“Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.”

“The eye is easily frightened.”

“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward sensesare still truly adjusted to each other.”

“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

“Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood and a ball hitting concrete must be blind.”

“For what but eye and ear silence the mindWith the minute particulars of mankind?”

“We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”

“Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.”

“The love of novels is the preference of sentiment to the senses.”

“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.”

“Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.”

“When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says "Do this", or "Do not do this", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will”

“Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?”

“The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end.”

“Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.”

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

“Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes.”

“In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.”

“Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.”

“All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.”

“The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?”

“And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds.”

“I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.”

“The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.”

“The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.”

“It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.”

“Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.”

“We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.”

“In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”

“Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.”

“Love heightens all senses - except the common.”

“I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.”

“The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than other men. His will be a deeper and finer experience. We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. It is with science as with ethics,--we cannot know truth by contrivance and method; the Baconian is as false as any other, and with all the helps of machinery and the arts, the most scientific will still be the healthiest and friendliest man, and possess a more perfect Indian wisdom.”

“The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.”

“The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind”

“Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.”

“In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.”

“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”

“Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. Also, it began through the process of seeing, and feeling, and hearing, and smelling, and touching, and then remembering--I mean remembering in words--what these perceptual experiences were like, while trying to describe the endless invisible fears and desires of our inner lives.”

“Death - a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh.”