Senses

(172 votes)   There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Diane Ackerman
1948-, American Poet, Writer, Naturalist

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(139 votes)   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.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(112 votes)   Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(102 votes)   ''Reason'' is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(88 votes)   I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

William M. Thackeray
1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

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(80 votes)   The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.

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(79 votes)   The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(78 votes)   Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Sir William Osler
1849-1919, Canadian Physician

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(71 votes)   Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Henry Fuseli
1741-1825, Swiss-born British Artist, Critic

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