Sensory Sweep

Famous quotes containing the words sensory and/or sweep:

“Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“I who take here
my bread and life
and sweep the temple,
still I swear
that I would save you,
birds or spirits.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)