Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that this delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. I remember,...

An ancient sage held that in different ages, humans held the senses in different ratios, according to the media by which they communicated and expressed themselves. Hence before writing, the ear was the royal sense....

Memories establish the past;Senses perceive the present;Imaginations shape the future.

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted...

You must learn to heed your senses. Humans use but a tiny percentage of theirs. They barely look, they rarely listen, they never smell, and they think that they can only experience feelings through their...

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presence, a perception of what we may call ‘something there,’ more deep and more general than any...

If you can think of your lover in six senses, then I’d say you’re nailed. They’ve got themselves wrapped around your heart. And your cock. (…) Six senses? (…) Sight, sound, taste, scent, touch, and...

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

Memory is the ‘filling cabinet’ of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.

We are so visually stimulated that we don’t even realize how important touch is. Our other senses get downplayed, but they can cue us into stuff that maybe isn’t that apparent by our vision.

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

We know there are colours in the spectrum untranslatable to our eyes; sounds beyond the range of our hearing; sensations beyond the tolerance of taste or touch. What else is there that we might be...

There’s no consciousness without senses and memories.

The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual’s autobiography, on the...

When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses. Humans have cut themselves off from their senses. Now they see only a tiny portion of the visible spectrum, hear only the...

to be a poet meansto live with a permanent wound forever susceptibleto either the shade of the skyor someone’s eyes.