#senses

Christopher couldn't recall what day it was; he certainly didn't know what hour it was. It was a gray day, but there was no dullness in that gray. It was shimmering pearl-gray, of a color bounced back by shimmering water and shimmering air. It was a crimson-edged day, like a gray squirrel shot and bleeding redly from the inside and around the edges. Yes, there was the pleasant touch of death on things, gushing death and gushing life. ↗

— R.A. Lafferty

#senses #change

To love in an age of empiricism is to be, above all, an 'experimenter.' To be always embracing new hypotheses, without ever questioning the evidence of the senses - this is why we need to endure the whip when we think we only want to try it. ↗

— Bauvard

#love #senses #age

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see. ↗

— Henry Adams

#perception #senses #sight #unity #vision

For the first time in his life, Mont Blanc for a moment looked to him what it was - a chaos of anarchic and purposeless forces - and he needed days of repose to see it clothe itself again with the illusions of his senses, the white purity of its snows, the splendor of its light, and the infinity of its heavenly peace. Nature was kind; Lake Geneva was beautiful beyond itself, and the Alps put on charms real as terrors. ↗

— Henry Adams

#illusion #nature #perception #sensation #senses

A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#life

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#senses #language

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#able #between #communication #intercept #man

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#companions #employ #everybody #intelligent #schoolmasters

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#country #cross #cross country #friends #go

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence. ↗

— Margaret J. Wheatley

#bombarded #confronted #constantly #days #escalating