Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other read more

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do read more

The source of genius is imagination alone, . . . the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Love is the poetry of the senses.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect read more

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. read more

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.