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I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
. . . 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.
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.
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them read more
They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the
seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.
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 never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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.