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I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

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.

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.