To an American the whole purpose of living, the one constant confirmation of continued existence, is to cram as much as sensual pleasure as possible into one's mouth more or less continuously. Gratification, instant and lavish, is a birthright
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Anyone who is not totally dead to himself will soon find that he is tempted and overcome by piddling and frivolous things. Whoever is weak in spirit, given to the flesh and inclined to sensual things can, but only with great difficulty, drag himself away from his earthly desires. Therefore he is often gloomy and sad when he is trying to pull himself away from them, and easily gives way to anger should someone attempt to oppose him.
The moral virtues, without religion are but cold, lifeless, and insipid; it is only religion which opens the mind to great conceptions, fills it with the most sublime ideas, and warms the soul with more than sensual pleasures.
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Clothes should never be decoration. . . . whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces. " By this sign we conquer.
Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.
Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".
In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or aversion to it.
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which befoul the urban atmosphere, the effusion of interpretations of art today poisons our sensibilities. In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
A large part of California is a sensual state. It has a huge range of geographical features and in addition to the deserts and the mountains and the huge coast line. The fact that we don't have harsh seasons, like they have in the East, means you can have convertible cars. There's more sunshine, per year here, and it affects people psychologically and physically. I think California has always been an attractive place for many, a lot of strange cults have been here over the years. Again, it's an experimental place.
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat. , Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti. ]
The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex. . . For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate. . . entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.