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“All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.” Galileo Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany” - 1615

“Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“I love New York on summer afternoons when every one's away. There's something very sensuous about it—overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.” William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” - 1930

“In so wild and so beautiful a region was spent my first day, every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.” John Muir, “The Mountains of California” - 1894

“But in this retirement of the mind from the senses, it often retains a yet more loose and incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“The Common Sense, is that which judges of things offered to it by the other senses.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings which move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“But when the physical appearance evades the scrutiny of our senses and enters the sanctuary of our hearts, then it can forget itself. I know, from my childhood's experience, how devotion is beauty itself, in its inner aspect.” Rabindranath Tagore, “The Home and the World” - 1916

“All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than...” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

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