"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."
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"No man in his senses will dance."
"And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?"
"Women communicate with all their senses. Men don't do that."
"Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence."
"The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of."
"Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses."
"How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn."
"Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes."
"Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."
"Everything has to come through the senses, as though the soul is speaking out through the senses."
"I was not so old that I would deny my own senses."
"All life is a delusion of the senses."
"If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken."
"The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses."
"Adolescence is a plague on the senses."
"History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood."
"Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least."
"Je me sens vraiment entre amis. (I feel that I am truly among friends.)"
"But magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses."