#senses

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. ↗

— Clara Hughes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

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It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

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For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose? ↗

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Margaret Cavendish

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

— Ann Druyan

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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

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Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

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