Human Body Quotes - Page 8

• I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds of paranormal investigations and has taught me that the human body is the best means of paranormal detection. I've become a fine-tuned instrument of spiritual sensitivity.

  Zak Bagans

  Spiritual, Mean, Skills

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• The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
  geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Body, Figures, Should

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• I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

  Richard Griffiths

  Nice, Artist, Past

  "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.

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• A person could last a long while without touch, but once someone had experienced the comfort, joy, and sheer relief of another human body close, the desire to experience that again was hard to deny.

  Mary Johnson

  Long, Joy, Desire

  Mary Johnson (2011). “An Unquenchable Thirst: A Memoir”, p.478, Spiegel & Grau

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• The body cannot be the soul.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Soul, Body

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• When the finely tuned balance among the different parts of bodies breaks down, the individual creature can die. A cancerous tumor, for example, is born when one batch of cells no longer cooperates with others. By dividing endlessly, or by failing to die properly, these cells can destroy the necessary balance that makes a living individual person. Cancers break the rules that allow cells to cooperate with one another. Like bullies who break cooperative societies, cancers behave in their own best interest until they kill their larger community, the human body.

  Neil Shubin

  Cancer, Cells, Community

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• If your ego starts out, "I am important, I am big, I am special," you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Disappointment, Special You, Space

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos". "Moyers & Company", billmoyers.com. January 10, 2014.

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• The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Enemy, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2213, Manonmani Publishers

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• My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the human body. So if I want to fix it, I just need to stay in harmony with Him.

  Benjamin Carson

  Strong, Needs, Body

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• Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

  Alexander Lowen

  Adventure, Discovery, Self

  Alexander Lowen (1994). “Bioenergetics”, Penguin Group USA

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere of this room rather comforting. Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. You may remember that Mark Twain preferred to lie supinely in bed while composing those rather dated and boring efforts which contemporary scholars try to prove meaningful. Veneration of Mark Twain is one of the roots of our current intellectual stalemate.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Meaningful, Lying, Writing

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.70, LSU Press

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• If the clockwork universe equated the human body with the mechanics of the clock, the digital universe now equates human consciousness with the processing of the computer. We joke that things don't compute, that we need a reboot, or that our memory has been wiped.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Memories, Philosophy, Medicine

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.55, Penguin

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• Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

  George C. Williams

  Two, Body, Ends

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• The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

  Andrew Weil

  Common Sense, Body, Lines

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Body, Politics, Causes

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.248, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

  Ginger Rogers

  Fire, Body, Four

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• Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

  Jose Marti

  Air, Essence, Wings

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• We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mind, Body, Reverence

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophical, Animal, Body

  "Letter on Humanism". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1947.

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• Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Hope, Powerful

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• Many say that life entered the human body by the help of music, but the truth is that life itself is music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Body, Helping, Truth Is

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• What is the shape of space? Is it flat, or is it bent? Is it nicely laid out, or is it warped and shrunken? Is it finite, or is it infinite? Which of the following does space resemble more: (a) a sheet of paper, (b) an endless desert, (c) a soap bubble, (d) a doughnut, (e) an Escher drawing, (f) an ice cream cone, (g) the branches of a tree, or (h) a human body?

  Rudy Rucker

  Science, Drawing, Space

  Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Rudy Rucker (1985). “The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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