#senses

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#creatures #helps #higher #imperfection #nature

The sensory misers will inherit the earth, but first they will make it not worth living on. When you consider something like death, after which we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably won’t matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love #lust-for-life #senses #death

It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#before #breaks #change #darkest #despair

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. ↗

— John Cusack

#because #besides #coffee #computer #force

Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to. ↗

— Charles Dance

#conclusion #contradicts #day #else #every

See with your mind, Speak with your heart, Touch with your eyes, Love with your entire being. ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#elysian-dreams #heart #living #living-life #love

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#common sense #given #judges #other #sense

Skateboarding helps a ton with balance, precision, with air awareness... it gets your senses to be spot-on and it's also a great way to take my mind off things. ↗

— Shaun White

#also #awareness #balance #gets #great

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#every #everything #expression #gesture #senses

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

— Hannah Arendt

#expressed #given #hear #nothing #senses