{"quotes":[{"text":"I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips.","author":"Christopher Vogler","tags":["heart","inspiration","laughter","senses","story","writing"],"id":284,"author_id":"Christopher+Vogler"},{"text":"She looked at the produce stalls, a row of jewels in a case, the colors more subtle in the winter, a Pantone display consisting only of greens, without the raspberries and plums of summer, the pumpkins of autumn. But if anything, the lack of variation allowed her mind to slow and settle, to see the small differences between the almost-greens and creamy whites of a cabbage and a cauliflower, to wake up the senses that had grown lazy and satisfied with the abundance of the previous eight months. Winter was a chromatic palate-cleanser, and she had always greeted it with the pleasure of a tart lemon sorbet, served in a chilled silver bowl between courses.","author":"Erica Bauermeister","tags":["cooking","senses","the-seasons","winter"],"id":2150,"author_id":"Erica+Bauermeister"},{"text":"With or without 'college' we are able to use our senses by perceiving the world around us, that in turn shapes and creates ones own reality. Perception is reality. My 'reality' is not the same as your 'reality' since we all have a different mental database, life experience, physiology, different characteristics, environments we grew up and people we hang out with, etc. I might fall in love with a certain smell while it triggers bad memories for someone else. Same goes for the other senses while perceiving 'reality'. And how real is this so called 'reality' anyway? Our senses can be quite limited compared to a camera or other living creatures on the planet. There are sounds and colours humans can not detect with their senses. We in fact do not perceive the whole 'picture'. The most important things in life are unseen. My point is that we do not need hierarchic, indoctrinating, and capitalized institution called 'science' to tell us what, when, why, and how to think, experiment, sense, and live our lives. Long before there was any 'science', there was sense first.","author":"Nadja Sam","tags":["education","education-system","freedom-of-thought","institution","life","perception","perception-of-reality","reality","science","scientism","senses"],"id":7378,"author_id":"Nadja+Sam"},{"text":"Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure.","author":"Dejan Stojanovic","tags":["borders","dejan-stojanovic","empowerment","limitations","literature","literature","pleasure","poetry","poetry","quotes","senses","thoughts","understanding","vision","wisdom"],"id":8273,"author_id":"Dejan+Stojanovic"},{"text":"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["empiricism","knowledge","rationalism","reason","senses","understanding"],"id":13381,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, 'encased in darkness and silence,' at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, sounds, and smells. Their reports arrive at different rates, often long out of date, yet the details are all stitched together into a seamless chronology. The difference is that Kublai Khan was piecing together the past. The brain is describing the present—processing reams of disjointed data on the fly, editing everything down to an instantaneous now. How does it manage it?","author":"Burkhard Bilger","tags":["brain","data","david-eagleman","processing","senses"],"id":13725,"author_id":"Burkhard+Bilger"},{"text":"My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.","author":"Dane Cook","tags":["family","great","senses "],"id":13756,"author_id":"Dane+Cook"},{"text":"Lose your mind and come to your senses.","author":"Frederick Salomon Perls","tags":["inspirational","mind","senses"],"id":14239,"author_id":"Frederick+Salomon+Perls"},{"text":"Even the air seems to have a smell - earthy and rich and complicated, made out of things living nd things dying and things long dead. The smell of the world where nothing stops moving, nothing stays the same.","author":"M.R. Carey","tags":["air","change","earth","life","senses","smell"],"id":17363,"author_id":"M.R.+Carey"},{"text":"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.","author":"Plato","tags":["composition","holy","inspiration","plato","poet","reason","senses"],"id":18432,"author_id":"Plato"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":153,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}