Quotes about Senses

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

Additional senses will appear: the feeling of lack, the taste of absence, the ability for particular precognition. Knowing what won't happen. Being able to smell what doesn't exist.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Think of how strange the colours and sights of the world would be for a blind man abruptly made to see or a man deaf from birth hearing the playing of a hundred flutes

So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

Like all knowledge, knowledge of God is mediated to us through our senses, through speech and symbol, mediated to us by parents and others. If this were not the case, we would be unable to account for the great diversity of representations of God. If knowledge of God, of the moral order, of the beautiful—if these were all innate, they would be universally identical and acknowledged as such.

The human being is a very poorly designed machine tool. The human being excels in coordination. He excels in relating perception to action. He works best if the entire human being, muscles, senses, and mind, is engaged in the work.