Lin Yutang Quotes

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

You always have to stimulate the senses.

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.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.

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.

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.

Live with all of your senses.

I'm a very senses-oriented person, and I want to bring readers in on the level of the senses, so they can experience another culture and another place.

I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

Use all of your senses.

We become in part what our senses take in.

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.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

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.

We live on the leash of our senses.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

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

I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.