Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
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Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
If we extend our senses, then, consequently, we will extend our knowledge. It's really very basic.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it was divded up in daily living: the Primary Imagination giving way to the Secondary. Poetry was forever seeking a conscious return to this state, which existed all the time, whether he knew it or not.
Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.
A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
Love is the poetry of the senses.
By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.
Both of my parents have great senses of humor.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.