Organs Quotes - Page 4

• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.

  Michael Grant

  Fear, Eye, Able

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• Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.

  Deepak Chopra

  Yoga, Compassion, Self

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Monkeys, Halifax, Grinder

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• I think you have a lot to offer... not necessarily as a person, but as an organ donor.

  Dov Davidoff

  Thinking, Donors, Organ Donor

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• Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.

  Al Kooper

  Opportunity, Player, Ambitious

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

  Zhuangzi

  Eye, Sight, Mind

  Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.205, Univ of California Press

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• When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind becomes an organ one cannot trust any longer. It becomes what the mystics claim it to be: a tool of distortion.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Mind, Absolutism

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.35, Penguin

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• The clitoris is the female sex organ, and the fact that we aren't told that when we were small children is devastating. We grow up with no information about the pleasure center of our body.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Growing Up, Children

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• Why is that when people become ill and have something wrong with any of their organs, they get sympathy from other people - except when that organ is their brain?

  Ruby Wax

  People, Brain, Ill

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• The eyes, it is said, are windows to the soul. They are not. They are organs for converting light into electro-magnetic impulses. But this has never stopped us dreaming of them that way.

  Amanda Knox

  Dream, Eye, Light

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• The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

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• Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

  Peter Drucker

  Purpose, Definitions, Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.89, Routledge

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• Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Self, World

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• What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.

  Arthur Eddington

  Eye, Men, Noses

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.329, Cambridge University Press

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• The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy.

  Sigmund Freud

  Past, Rome, Cities

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

  Edward Hirsch

  Hands, Imagination, Understanding

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• To a physician, each man, each woman, is an amplification of one organ.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Physicians, Amplification

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.389

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• I am firmly in the lard camp. It must be what we call leaf lard, which is a specific kind of lard that resides around certain internal organs in the pig.

  Alton Brown

  Pigs, Kind, Leafs

  "TV Chef Alton Brown Shares Tips On The Science Of Thanksgiving Dinner". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, northernpublicradio.org. November 24, 2016.

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• We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pigs, Humans, Solutions

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia.

  Hillary Clinton

  Russia, Cyber Attacks, States

  "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", www.imdb.com. 2016.

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• One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Farewell, Men, Sky

  Arthur C. Clarke (2013). “Profiles Of The Future”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• If the eyes are open and there is light, seeing occurs; the stimulus is but a condition of the fulfillment of the proper function of the organ, not an outside interruption. To some extent, then, all direction or control is a guiding of activity to its own end; it is an assistance in doing fully what some organ is already tending to do.

  John Dewey

  Eye, Light, Function

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.21, 谷月社

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• The first office of the social organ we call the school is to provide a simplified environment. It selects the features which are fairly fundamental and capable of being responded to by the young. Then it establishes a progressive order, using the factors first acquired as means of gaining insight into what is more complicated.

  John Dewey

  School, Mean, Order

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Viruses, Enabling, Natural

  "Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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