Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

We become in part what our senses take in.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies.

When I see a colour or hear a sound, I am aware of something, and not of nothing.

The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

The senses are a kind of reason. Taste, touch and smell, hearing and seeing, are not merely a means to sensation, enjoyable or otherwise, but they are also a means to knowledge - and are, indeed, your only actual means to knowledge.

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

The sensory world is the school, without which the human being would never come to the spirit.

I want get people to think about sensory based of thinking.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.

You always have to stimulate the senses.

I find the reality of our emotional lives interesting.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like this table and this microphone and so on, but we actually create that in our heads out of the bits of information that hit the back of our eyeballs or hit our eardrums or hit our tongues or whatever.

Emotions are the same to all human beings. But there is some difference in the way people react to situations.

Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.

The senses interfere everywhere, and mix their own structure with all they report of.