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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.

Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when children misbehave and they dread more the anger that is rarely or never expressed openly, wondering how awful it might be.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.

Live with all of your senses.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance... Everything is of the blood, of the senses.

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.