No man in his senses will dance. [ Cicero ]
Love is the poetry of the senses. [ Balzac ]
And steep my senses in forgetfulness. [ William Shakespeare ]
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. [ Emerson ]
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. [ Milton ]
Sweet nurse of nature, over the senses creep. [ Churchill ]
To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,
And give as soft attachment to thy senses,
As infants empty of all thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses. [ Cervantes ]
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses. [ Kant ]
He that overfeeds his senses feasts his enemies. [ Proverb ]
The keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight. [ Cicero ]
There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. [ Börne ]
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 ]
The supreme sway of chastity over the senses makes her queenly. [ Joubert ]
The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul. [ George MacDonald ]
The brain is the citadel of the senses: this guides the principle of thought. [ Pliny the Elder ]
Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. [ Johnson ]
The fragrant infancy of opening flowers flowed to my senses in that melting kiss. [ Southern ]
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. [ Quintilian ]
The beauty of a young girl should speak to the imagination, and not to the senses. [ A. Karr ]
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. [ E. Kant ]
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure senses but the soul. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgment sound. [ Plautus ]
Poetry is a spirit, not disembodied, but in the flesh, so as to affect the senses of living men. [ Stedman ]
The heart of youth is reached through the senses; the senses of age are reached through the heart. [ Ritif de la Bretonne ]
In exalting the faculties of the soul, we annihilate, in a great degree, the delusion of the senses. [ Aime-Martin ]
Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the senses. [ Voltaire ]
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? [ Lucretius ]
Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life. [ Emerson ]
Sympathy is a relationship of the heart and mind: between two persons of different sex the senses enter the relationship. [ A. Dupuy ]
In this retirement of the mind from the senses, it retains a yet more incoherent manner of thinking, which we call dreaming. [ Locke ]
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
One must have a heart to know how to love; senses do not suffice. Temperament led by the mind leads to voluptuousness, but never to love. [ De Bernis ]
Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct: for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily. [ Confucius ]
The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work. [ Cicero ]
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses, - the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. [ Thackeray ]
He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. [ Scott ]
Men, as well as women, are oftener led by their hearts than their understandings. The way to the heart is through the senses; please their eyes and ears, and the work is half done. [ Chesterfield ]
Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys. [ Pascal ]
Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased. [ Colton ]
Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses? [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
I am of opinion that there is nothing so beautiful but that there is something still more beautiful, of which this is the mere image and expression, - a something which can neither be perceived by the eyes, the ears, nor any of the senses; we comprehend it merely in the imagination. [ Cicero ]
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. [ William Shakespeare ]
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly; for then they would satiate us, and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. [ Ruskin ]
There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. [ Carlyle ]
The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]
Courage, by keeping the senses quiet, and the understanding clear, puts us in a condition to receive true intelligence, to make just computations upon danger, and pronounce rightly upon that which threatens us. Innocence of life, consciousness of worth, and great expectations, are the best foundations of courage. These ingredients make a richer cordial than youth can prepare. They warm the heart at eighty, and seldom fail in operation. [ Collier ]