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"Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun."

Allen, Woody on body
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"The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable."

Bhagavad Gita on body
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"The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new."

Brown, Norman O. on body    Share

"My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]"

Chan, Jackie on body    Share

"Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs."

Chanel, Coco on body    Share

"A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love."

Cohen, Leonard on body
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"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on body
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"I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict."

Delacroix, Eugene on body
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"Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity."

Dworkin, Andrea on body    Share

"The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants."

Edison, Thomas A. on body    Share

"Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness."

Eliot, George on body    Share

"It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse."

Epictetus on body    Share

"Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition."

Farnham, Eliza on body    Share

"The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris."

Freud, Sigmund on body    Share

"He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on body    Share

"Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on body    Share

"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."

Haney, Lee on body    Share

"Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding."

Huang, Chungliang Al on body    Share

"What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera."

Huxley, Aldous on body    Share

"It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet."

Lawrence, D. H. on body    Share

"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on body    Share

"Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison."

Loyola, St. Ignatius on body    Share

"Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point."

Mcginley, Phyllis on body    Share

"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure."

Melton, George on body    Share

"Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."

Miller, Henry on body    Share

"The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom."

Mindell, Thomas Arnold on body    Share

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants."

Oech, Roger Von on body    Share

"In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence."

Rich, Adrienne on body    Share

"Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced."

Sade, Marquis De on body    Share

"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on body    Share

"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

Santayana, George on body    Share

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"Hide your body in the Big Dipper."

Saying, Zen on body    Share

"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on body    Share

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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."

Steinem, Gloria on body    Share

"An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating."

Stopes, Marie Carmichael on body    Share

"Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body."

Szasz, Thomas on body    Share

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