Sensory Limitation Quotes

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

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.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.

It would be like describing colors to someone blind from birth: The words might be understood, but the concept would remain mysterious and private.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.

Most of my childhood is a big blur, 'cause I needed better glasses.

There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

If Helen Keller had psychic ability, would you say she had a fourth sense? What year did Jesus think it was?

We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

The problem with online shopping is that you cannot feel the fabric.