Hannah Arendt Quotes

We live on the leash of our senses.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

Use all of your senses.

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.

Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

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

It is clear that every immediate object of our senses both exists and is real in the primary meaning of these terms so long as we remain aware of the object.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Live with all of your senses.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

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

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

We become in part what our senses take in.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

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.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

I do not mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing, but I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us, and which is incomplete and limited. Our eyes have developed such as to survive. It is merely coincidence that we can see stars with them, as well.