Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Blaise Pascal

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Louis Aragon

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.
Margaret Cavendish

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
Joseph Butler

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Arthur Keith

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.
Jack Kroll

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Titus Maccius Plautus

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Robert Browning

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Alex Grey

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
Pablo Casals

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.
Vladimir Kramnik

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
Tiberius

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.
Sharon Olds

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.
Mercedes Lackey

If my senses don't feel right then I don't do it.
Melanie Brown