Pastoral Resources

We live on the leash of our senses.

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

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

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

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.

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

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.

Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!