James Blish (1921–1975) American author
Source: Short fiction, Midsummer Century (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 61)
“Okay, you were probably taught there are five senses," he said. "We see, hear, touch, smell and taste. But how do we know those are the only five? What are the senses that we don't have? What are we failing to perceive?”
Source: The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker
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Vātsyāyana Indian logician
Source: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanskrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks http://books.google.com/books?id=-ElAAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA18, Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883, P. 17
Henri Nouwen (1932–1996) Dutch priest and writer
The Living Reminder: Service and Prayer in Memory of Jesus Christ (1977)
Context: When we walk in the Lord's presence, everything we see, hear, touch, or taste reminds us of Him. This is what is meant by a prayerful life. It is not a life in which we say many prayers but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of Him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), II : The Starting-Point
Context: Knowledge is employed in the service of the necessity of life and primarily in the service of the instinct of personal preservation. The necessity and this instinct have created in man the organs of knowledge and given them such capacity as they possess. Man sees, hears, touches, tastes and smells that which it is necessary for him to see, hear, touch, taste and smell in order to preserve his life. The decay or loss of any of these senses increases the risks with which his life is environed, and if it increases them less in the state of society in which we are actually living, the reason is that some see, hear, touch, taste and smell for others. A blind man, by himself and without a guide, could not live long. Society is an additional sense; it is the true common sense.
“We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure.”
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author
Thoughts in Solitude (1956)
Context: We must suffer. Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason. It helps think clearly, judge sanely. It strengthens the action of our will.
Robert N. Proctor (1954) American historian
Source: Value-free science?: Purity and power in modern knowledge, 1991, p. 13
“Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.”
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 5, Abstraction, Beyond concrete reality, p. 35