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Letter "T" » the senses
«Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.»
«The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
deceive, deceived, from time to time, prudent, senses, the senses, wholly
«The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
existing, senses, the senses, The War
«The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
at will, intercept, intercepting, intercepts, the senses
«The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
«Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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approbation, corn, earn, epics, planting, the senses
«Those whose only aim is to barter the energies of life for gold, or name, or any other enjoyment; those to whom the tramp of embattled cohorts is the only manifestation of power; those to whom the enjoyment of the senses is the only bliss that life c»
Author: Swami Vivekananda
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
barter, bartering, barters, cohort, cohorts, embattled, energies, manifestation, the senses, tramp, tramped, tramps
«When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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amazingly, satisfies, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up, stuffed, the senses
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