#senses

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#disgust #disorder #distract #doth #life

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#everything #extent #important #learned #me

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

#humor #infantile #senses #tend #wonderfully

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#go #herds #mad #men #only

If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't listening closely enough. The anesthetic of progressive benevolence always dulls the senses. Wake up. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#design #distilled #drawn #experiences #intellect

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#create #education #giving #means #observation