Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
What', said he, ' makes the difference between man and all the rest of the animal creation? Every beast that strays beside me has the same corporeal necessities with myself; he is hungry and crops the...
Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?
Consciousness is a result of environment. Our cognitions - our idea of reality - are shaped by what we can perceive, by the limitations of our senses.
In children's art class we sat in a ring of kindergarten chairs and drew three daffodils that had just been picked out of the yard; and while I was drawing, my sharpened yellow pencil and the cup of t...
At the fairgrounds we saw them in the parking lot inhaling the effluvium of carnival, the smells of fried dough, caramel and cinnamon, the flap-flapping of tents, a carousel plinking out music-box son...
An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was t...
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many man...
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see it is above, not against them.
[...] he had examined the world by the light of the intellect alone and had seen a totally different construction from that which the senses see by the light of reason.
Testers for 7-Up consistently found consumers would report more lemon flavor in their product if they added 15% more yellow coloring TO THE PACKAGE.
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens...
Are You Ready for New Urban Fragrances?Yeah, I guess I'm ready, but listen:Perfume is a disguise. Since the middle ages, we have worn masks of fruit and flowers in order to conceal from ourselves the...
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