Sense

The senses show us shadows on a cave wall; true knowledge requires the mind to ascend beyond what can be seen or touched.

Sensation receives the form of the object without its matter; it is the reliable beginning of all knowledge.

Sensation is the impact of atomic films on the sense organs; the senses never lie, only judgment errs.

Sensation is a spiritual immutation of the organ by the sensible form; it bridges the bodily and the intellectual.

The senses frequently deceive us; the mind alone, through clear and distinct ideas, reaches certainty.

Sensation is nothing but motion in the organs caused by external bodies pressing upon them.

Sensation is one of two channels of experience; it furnishes the mind with simple ideas that reason cannot produce on its own.

All we ever perceive are our own sensations; matter apart from perception is an empty word.

Sensibility provides the raw matter of experience through the forms of space and time, which the mind contributes a priori.

Sensation is the stream of immediate experience before thought carves it into objects; attention and interest shape what we perceive.