Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they’re also more sensitive to being touched. – Helen Fisher
Every gesture is a gesture from the blood, every expression a symbolic utterance… Everything is of the blood, of the senses. – Henry Williamson
There is no other way to break the frozen cinematic conventions than through a complete derangement of the official cinematic senses. – Jonas Mekas
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them. – Blaise Pascal
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. – Blaise Pascal
Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses. – Michael Servetus
For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses. – Margaret Cavendish
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. – Maria Callas
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot
Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach. – Marcel Duchamp
We tend to block off many of our senses when we’re staring at a screen. Nature time can literally bring us to our senses. – Richard Louv
These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. – William John Wills
One senses that all the Bolsheviks, even those who ended up as cold-blooded autocrats, had been on a journey from idealism to something else, and didn’t notice – to mix periods – when the Rubicon was crossed. – Tom Stoppard
