Nikos Kazantzakis Quotes

The greatest gift is our own eyes, sense of smell, and abilities to deduce.

Use all of your senses.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

We live on the leash of our senses.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

The true man of science - will smell, taste, see, hear better than other men.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.

In the search for truth - that everything in nature seems to hide - man needs the assistance of all his faculties. All the senses should be awake.

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 skin. But they talk, oh, do they talk.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.