Quote by Denis Diderot
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses

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

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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey. – Denis Diderot

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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

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

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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

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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

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