senses, n.Definitions

The Senses is not capable of deceiving us. Only our judgment is.

The Senses is the sole source of all credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth.

The Senses is the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

The Senses is the only thing that can cure the soul, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The Senses is differently prioritized in different cultures and epochs. The truth of vision in western, literate cultures has predominated over the evidences of sound and interlocution, of touch, smell, and taste.

The Senses is compensatory — the blind hear best, the deaf see best. Like wind through a narrow pass, the world enters us more forcefully when it must squeeze through a single sense.

The Senses is all of a piece. If ears tongues and noses were removed from the world, then odors tastes and sounds would be removed as well.

The Senses deceive from time to time. It is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.