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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has read more

. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them read more

They received the use of the five operations of the Lord and in
the sixth place he imparted them understanding, and in the
seventh speech, an interpreter of the cogitations thereof.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.

I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.