Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. Read Summary
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Read Summary
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. Read Summary
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. Read Summary
When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself. Read Summary
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Read Summary
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Read Summary
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. Read Summary
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. Read Summary
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Read Summary
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all. Read Summary
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses. Read Summary
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. Read Summary
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. Read Summary
It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Read Summary
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Read Summary
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls. Read Summary
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. Read Summary
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful. Read Summary
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Read Summary