Quotes
Quotes about Senses
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 1.
What means this heaviness that hangs upon me? This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? Nature, oppress'd and harrass'd out with care, Sinks down to rest.
...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks, It ravishes all senses.
