#sensation

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing. ↗

— Karel Capek

#being #buzzing #conscious #gentlemen #great

There are legitimate, even powerful arguments, to be made against the Bush administration's foreign policy. But those arguments are complicated, hard to explain, and, in the end, not all that sensational. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#against #bush #complicated #end #even

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#considered #elements #feelings #large #naturally

The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

#analysis #between #ideas #investigation #mediator

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#consciousness #different #life #life is a #sensations

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#infatuation #love #sensation #thoughts #dreams

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#beside #class #contemplation #ideas #locke

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#else #embodies #enhanced #form #meaning

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#image #love #lust #sensation

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style. ↗