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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect read more
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do read more
The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered read more
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 experience.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it read more
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it had missed the point.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other read more
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has read more
. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
