The Five Gateways of Knowledge
These gateways—which we otherwise name the Organs of the Senses, and call in our mother speech, the Eye, the Ear, the Nose, the Mouth, and the Skin—are instruments by which we see, and hear, and smell, and taste, and touch: at once loopholes through which the soul gazes out upon the world, and the world gazes in upon the soul.