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There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence. – Henry Fuseli

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. – Johann von Goethe

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. – Johann von Goethe

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. – Helen Keller

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. – William Osler

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. – Mervyn Peake

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether. – Socrates

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. – William Makepeace Thackeray

The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. – Source Unknown