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There is no way in which to understand the world without first det

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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Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth. – Diane Ackerman

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. – Diane Ackerman

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

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Senses

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

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Senses

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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