Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.

The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch. I find people who devote their whole lives to taste a little strange.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.

You have the sense of touch because you need it.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.

Sight is subjective. We learned that in class.

We become in part what our senses take in.

The subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.