Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!"
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Five Senses
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Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Don't ignore the five senses in search of a sixth."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"The five senses are the ministers of the soul."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience."
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"Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all."
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"Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
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"Our real reality is beyond the five senses."
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"Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?"
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"We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation."
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"It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle."
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"Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it."
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"Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help."
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"In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you."
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"Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses."
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"Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe."
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