There are other classes of desires which appeal to the sensuous and sensual nature of man.
Among these can be reckoned a taste for opium or morphine, a taste for women, or for those kinds of literature and drama which appeal to the sensuous nature.
Thus he says that "sensuous life is a mere stage-play; all the misery in it is only imaginary, all grief a mere cheat of the players.
He insists that our sensuous impressions are the criterion of truth, and that even the sensations of a lunatic and a dreamer are true.
He disposes of all doubt respecting the criterion of truth by proclaiming that the distinctness of our sensuous impressions is a sufficient guide.
The gradual increase of scepticism and indifference throughout this period is obvious enough; thus Arcesilaus said that he knew nothing, not even his own ignorance, and denied both intellectual and sensuous knowledge.
The tocsin blast dies on the breeze, or speaks to a few lonely thinkers who catch its notes for future warning; the reed’s soft sensuous music is hugged and repeated by the critics and the commonplace.
Her voice has a natural sensuous charm like a Cremona violin, which it is a pleasure to listen to, irrespective of what she happens to be singing.
Hence the Italians deserve full credit for the attention they bestow on sensuous beauty of tone, even if their means of securing it may not always be approved.
Her voice has a sensuous beauty that is matchless, and no other prima donna, except Materna, has emotion in her voice so deep and genuine as that which moves us in Lehmann's Isolde and Brünnhilde.
Now, sensuous beauty of tone is a most desirable thing in music.
As he looked at her, smoking daintily in the fling of the fire glow, every inch the pampered heiress of the ages, his blood quickened to an appreciation of the sensuous charm of sex she breathed forth so indifferently.
The indolence, the sheathed perfection, the soft sensuous allure of the young widow seemed to Jeff a product largely of her father's wealth.
The dimpling smiles, the quick sympathy of this innocent, sensuous young creature, drew him out of his depression.
In her soft sensuous blood the lusty beat of duty had small play.
For with all her sensuous appeal the daughter of Joe Powers was not a woman with whom men took liberties.
She had among other sensuous charms a voice attuned to convey slightest shades of meaning.
The priestess, a comely girl, chants the psalm of Adonis, the beautiful old pagan hymn, more beautiful and more sensuous than anything uttered by the later religious poets of the West; and all listen in delighted stillness.
It has not originated in any sensuous idea, but in some very ancient superstitious idea.
The advantage of Browning is that he has used the sensuousimagery for ethical symbolism; here he greatly surpasses Jonson, though it would be hard to improve upon the beauty of Jonson's verses, as merely describing visual beauty.
Riding parties to the Pali and picnics at Pearl Harbor and the plantations along the railway filled up every hour of the long, soft, sensuous days.
The more deeply sensuous sonnets, and such characteristic pieces as The Blessed Damozel, are representative rather of the dangers and defects of his poetry.
The C[=a]itanya sect teaches not absorption but individual existence in a heaven of sensuous (sensual) pleasure.
The music is full of sensuous richness and at times rises to heights of genuine passion, while every opportunity to introduce spectacular features, such as processions and ballets, is seized.
The superficial, sensuous charms of the human voice have always appealed powerfully to the Italian race, and its composers have catered to this taste.
There is a feeling in this music which is far removed from the possibility of a purely sensuous embodiment.
Music-lovers have usually, with the exception of the few, preferred the purely sensuous beauty of music to its intellectual qualities.
To a piece of black satin, draped around her in sensuous lines, a girdle of tangerine velvet added the sole touch of color.
One was: "Could he capture Janet's great natural talents for his own side, the side, not of the fires of sensuous gratification but of the flame that burns at the heart of the world?
Somehow this, of all things, seemed most sensuous to him--most oriental.
In a dark place he pulled her vigorously to him, putting a long, sensuous kiss on her lips that frightened her.
He was not as quick at that as he was at the more varied outlines of landscapes and buildings, but he could give lovely sensuous touches to the human form--particularly to the female form--which were beginning to be impressive.
He studied the face and neck, the soft mass of brown, sensuous hair massed at the back of the head, the flowerlike lips and soft cheeks.
But in Christina Channing, whom he met shortly afterward, he found a woman of a moresensuous and lovable type, though hardly less artistic.
It is simple--extremely simple--and sensuous and passionate.
He had suffered a sentimental, a sensuous hallucination, and had made her suffer.
The negation or annulling of sin is the negation of abstract moral rectitude,--the positing of love, mercy, sensuous life.
A warlike or ardently sensuous people will naturally attest its distinctive religious character by deeds, by force of arms.
The reason cannot rest in sensuous things;" it can find contentment only when it penetrates to the highest, first necessary being, which can be an object to the reason alone.
The distinction between God with the Son, or the sensuous God, and God without the Son, or God divested of sensuousness, is nothing further than the distinction between the mystical and the rational man.
The subjective activity, that in which man contents himself, allows himself free play, is here thesensuous imagination alone.
To think and to speak are therefore, with all ancient and sensuous nations, identical; they think only in speaking; their thought is only conversation.
This religious truth, embodied in a cultus, in a sensuous form, is the Lord's Supper.
He who earnestly believes in the Divine existence is not shocked at the attributing even of gross sensuous qualities to God.
Man, as an emotional and sensuous being, is governed and made happy only by images, by sensible representations.
And this is true not merely of spiritual, but also of sensuous objects.
He was one of the first in Germany to feel the really sensuous joy of painting, and to mix soft, luxuriant, melting colours.
The more inducement there was to guess charades, the more injury was done to the sensuous enjoyment of art; for the accompanying text of the author merely translated the pictures back into their natural element.
He had in no ordinary degree a rich and sensuous nature, and his responsiveness was so quick that the barriers of prudence were apt to be as shadowy to him as to the author of "The Witch of Atlas.
His sensuous brutality made me almost fiercely brutal in turn.
It simply meant that a breath of rich, sensuous odours from an exotic island had swept across the conventional lamp-posts and well-trimmed gardens of his life.
No woman, so far as he remembered, had ever inspired in him this special sensuous and yet impersonal sensation.
All love proceeds from seeing: intelligent love, from seeing intelligently; sensuous love, from seeing sensuously.
When the thoughts are counselled to repress the sight, it is not the first, but the second, mode that is meant, because that is the father of the subsequent affection of the sensuous or intellectual desire.
From the great gilt perfuming-pans, columns of thin blue smoke diffused sensuous odours.
The air of the harem was heavy with sweet perfumes, mingling with the sensuous odour of burning pastilles.
As I held the paper in my hand, it emitted a pleasantsensuous odour.
She would not be subtly changed by the sensuous influences of the situation; she would always be the same plump and earthly piece of candour.
I have already mentioned the fact that Kant relaxes the separation of the moral realm of freedom from the sensuous realm of nature sufficiently to assert that the former is meant to influence the latter and finally to subjugate it.
The humiliating condition of contemporary Germany was due to the prevalence of egoism, selfishness and particularism: to the fact that men had lowered themselves to the plane of sensuous life.
Then he proceeds to reinterpret in terms of the sensuous natural principle and the ideal rational principle the main doctrines of Lutheran Protestantism.
It came to him clothed in a refinement, a daintiness, an atmosphere of soft lights and flowers and savoir faire et vivre which spoke eloquently to all that was sensuous in his nature, and stirred nothing of what was merely sensual.
