38 Metaphors for sensation

The next agreeable sensation is the breaking out of a cold sweat all over.

"Sensation" is a philosophic prose word.

"Endeavor" is a diminutive motion, as the atom is the smallest of bodies; sensation and representation are changes in the perceiving body.

Sensation is the sole source and the sole content of the life of the mind as a whole.

Something occurring, it would be said, I had the not very unusual sensation, 'This has occurred to me before,' and the sensation would become a false memory that it had occurredin a dream.

The burning sensation it produces there, is only an appeal for water to dilute it.

In themselves sensations are merely subjective states, modes of our own being; without the sense of touch we would ascribe odor, sound, and color to ourselves.

When the delicious perfume of the sakura quickens the morning air, as the sun in its course rises to illumine first the isles of the Far East, few sensations are more serenely exhilarating than to inhale, as it were, the very breath of beauteous day.

But perhaps the greatest sensation of the month has been Mr. Lloyd George's Paris speech, with its disquieting references to the situation on the Western front, and its announcement of the formation of the new Allied Council.

In more scientific language an opposite polarity is induced, giving rise to a current which stimulates a particular mode of sensation, which sensation in turn becomes a fresh starting-point for still further action; and in this way each successive stage becomes the stepping-stone to a still higher degree of sensationthat is, to a Fuller Enjoyment of Life.

With Fichte and Leibnitz sensation is immature thought, with Condillac thought is refined sensation.

Our own sensations are often at best a very unsafe guide.

But sensations are not the only contents of the mind at time of fatigue.

For the cause of any sensation, and the sensation itself, in all the simple ideas of one sense, are two ideas; and two ideas so different and distant one from another, that no two can be more so.

Sensation thus becomes the basis of knowledge.

My next sensation was a crushing pain in my shoulder, struck by the hoof of a horse, and a sharp knife pain in my right thigh.

All the morbid sensations which he felt, his excessive fatigue on rising, the buzzing in his ears, the flashes of light before his eyes, even his attacks of indigestion and his paroxysms of tears, were so many infallible symptoms of the near insanity with which he believed himself threatened.

We talk of the world as if our sensations were the sum total of experience.

A palpitant imagination outranks "cold intelligence;" sensation, divorced from all its bearings or functions, is its own excuse for being.

He called three times, and then, with a sinking sensation in 'is stummick, 'e went up on deck and I follered 'im.

Sensation is an incomplete consciousness, because we do not know how its object arises.

Not the least unpleasant sensation was a low, rumbling noise, like distant thunder, that accompanied the shock.

" "And she smiled and said that such sensations were merely echoes from the invisible psychic wire, and that repetitions from some previous incarnation were not unusual, particularly when the other person through whom the psychic current passed, was near by.

'True, Sir; but sensation is sensation.'

In themselves sensations are merely subjective states, modes of our own being; without the sense of touch we would ascribe odor, sound, and color to ourselves.

38 Metaphors for  sensation