#sensation

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ↗

— Josh Billings

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People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it. ↗

— Francis Wright

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In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

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It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious. ↗

— Esther Williams

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It doesn't seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. ↗

— Anthony Hecht

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Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

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