“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.” HumansBodyHappensFormLinesQualityPiecesStrangePaperClothesFlowFunctionLipsWorthyRingsNosesHuman BodyStretchingTubesDecorationTangledPresent TimeFacialEnchantingDiskInfusion Author:Robert Musil
“The physical universe was created when Oneness became duality, and we can see this duality, this yin and yang, everywhere in the universe, in every atom, every action, and in every function of the human body. Yin and yang are manifest everywhere, except at the very center of being, the perfect point of balance, at that infinite moment where the future becomes the past.” HumansMomentsBodyActionPastSpiritualUniversePerfectBalanceFunctionInfiniteOnenessManifestAtomsHuman BodyDualityYangYin And Yang Author:Robert Tisserand
“In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.” HumansBodyCareCertainSceneFunctionDon't CareCaringI Don't CareBloodyHuman Body Author:William Holden
“To my mind, healing means returning a malfunctioning human body to full unrestricted function, not to remove parts of it by operation or amputation” MindHumansMeanBodyHealingFunctionOperationsRemoveHuman BodyAmputation Author:Rudolf Breuss
“Self-painting is a further development of painting. The pictorial surface has lost its function as sole expressive support. It was led back to its origins, the wall, the object, the living being, the human body. By incorporating my body as expressive support, occurrences arise as a result, the course of which the camera records and the viewer can experience” HumansSelfBodyCoursesLostResultsSupportRecordsObjectsPaintingWallDevelopmentFunctionCamerasSurfaceAriseSoleViewersHuman BodyExpressivePictorialIncorporating Author:Gunter Brus
“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” HumansMayStatesBodyPainGrowthLeadershipAttentionCriticismFunctionPraiseCriticsFlatteryHuman BodyUnhealthyConstructive CriticismCriticism And PraiseAgreeableness Author:Winston Churchill
“I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)” IfsFeelsYearsHumansBodyWould BeUsedPleasureImagineHeardExampleUniqueFemaleFunctionMalesJustifyPossessedOrgansAccurateHuman Body Author:Gloria Steinem
“That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become extinct. Let any part of the human body cease to perform its ordained function, and it withers-as when an arm is kept long in a sling. This same decree, that nothing useless is permitted to survive, runs through the mind of the industrial world.” WorldMindHumansLongBodyRunningPurposeDiesAnimalFailingFailureArmsSurvivalFunctionCeaseUselessSchemesHuman BodyDecreeSlowly But Surely Author:B. C. Forbes