Famous Quotes - Tags - Sensation

  • A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. More
  • A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the... More
  • And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us,... More
  • As, in Sense, that which is really within us, is (as I have said before) only Motion, caused by... More
  • But, when nothing subsists from a distant past, after the death of others, after the destruction... More
  • Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our... More
  • Desiccation of the world of sense,
    Evacuation of the world of fancy,
    Inoperancy of the... More
  • Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most... More
  • Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it... More
  • Eye, gazelle, delicate wanderer,
    Drinker of horizon’s fluid line;
    Ear that suspends on... More
  • Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have the uncultured souls. More
  • I caught a blackjack right behind my ear. A black pool opened up at my feet. I dived in. It had... More
  • In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the... More
  • I’m going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the... More
  • Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. More
  • Love’s feeling is more soft and sensible
    Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. More
  • Music, when soft voices die,
    Vibrates in the memory;
    Odours, when sweet violets... More
  • Odors blown sweet as infants’ naked flesh,
    Soft as oboes, green as a studded plain,
    ... More
  • Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps... More
  • REASON, is half of it, SENSE; and the measure of heaven itself is but the measure of our present... More
  • Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed. More
  • Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch. More
  • The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object... More
  • The great object in life is Sensation—to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this... More
  • The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for... More
  • There are various forms taken by the myth of the given ... but they all have in common the idea... More
  • There was a faith-healer of Deal
    Who said, “Although pain isn’t real,
    If I sit on a... More
  • Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with... More
  • To put the matter in Aristotelian terminology, visual impressions are prior in the order of being... More
  • We may say that feelings have two kinds of intensity. One is the intensity of the feeling itself,... More
  • Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and... More
  • “Who’s that tickling my back?” said the wall. More

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