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“There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body.”

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Book:Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

Source: Novalis and the poets of pessimism: with an English translation by James Thomson (

“We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!”

Humans Body Hands Heaven Lays Human Body

Author:Novalis

“Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.”

Humans Body Dark Rooms Meetings Committees Human Body Temperature Inconvenient

Author:Virginia Graham

“Survival is as much a matter of grace as fight. The expression, 'grace under pressure' implies the attainment of equanimity and equilibrium. The fundamental durability of the human body surprises us because the pain can be so intense - yet pain is often transient and hides the tremendous effforts the body is engaged in to heal itself.”

Source: A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning

“To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.”

Humans Long Body Desire Passion Memories Pleasure Seasons Human Body

Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.”

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Author:Horace Bushnell

“No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.”

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Author:Olive Schreiner

“Many there are who, not comprehending, not being affected with, that divine, spiritual description of the person of Christ which is given us by the Holy Ghost in the Scripture, do feign unto themselves false representations of him by images and pictures, so as to excite carnal and corrupt affections in their minds. By the help of their outward senses, they reflect on their imaginations the shape of a human body, cast into postures and circumstances dolorous or triumphant; and so, by the working of their fancy, raise a commotion of mind in themselves, which they suppose to be love unto Christ.”

Source: The Person of Christ

“I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.”

Mind Humans Philosophy Moments Body Memories Space Emotion Alive Aspect Medicine Privilege Senses Acknowledge Human Body Good Memories Soma

Book:Art Psalms

Source: Art Psalms

“Human beings have become so afraid of the unknown, themselves, and each other that they deprive themselves of that innate ecstasy and love of life which comes with a human body, mind and spirit, by hiding behind the empty shell of their ego.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Paper money will invariably operate in the body of politics as spirit liquors on the human body. They prey on the vitals and ultimately destroy them”

Humans Body Spirit Paper Prey Human Body Liquor Paper Money

Author:George Washington

“The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.”

Humans Body Wind Spring Machines Perpetual Human Body Perpetual Motion

Author:Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.”

Ifs World Humans Body Past Three Century Changed Shapes Size Longevity Human Body

Author:Robert Fogel

“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”

Humans Self Body Courses Lost Results Support Records Objects Painting Wall Development Function Cameras Surface Arise Sole Viewers Human Body Expressive Pictorial Incorporating

Author:Gunter Brus

“The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”

Humans Body Government Cities Support Pure Add Human Body Great Cities

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786

“The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.”

Humans Body Rich Complexes Appreciation Human Body Complex Systems

Author:Bill Gates

“Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.”

Humans Body Space Behavior Flying Flight Lacking Human Body Good Science Space Flight

Author:Charles Simonyi

“If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.”

Ifs Humans Wells Body Trauma Handle Human Body Biotechnology

Author:Alex Berenson

“Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.”

Years Humans Body Might Moving Given Goal Modern Century Degrees Human Body Modern Life Ingenuity

Author:Lance Morrow

“The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.”

Giving Humans Stills Soul Body Lying Instruments Ships Desert Entity Finest Human Body Deserted Rudders

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.”

Humans Wells Body Happens Reader Fit Essence Down And Size Newspapers Flying Desert Display Human Body Rabbits Eagles Zoom Scanning Body Work

Author:Russ Wilcox

“Those who were skillful in Anatomy among the Ancients, concluded from the outward and inward Make of an Human Body, that it was the Work of a Being transcendently Wise and Powerful. As the World grew more enlightened in this Art, their Discoveries gave them fresh Opportunities of admiring the Conduct of Providence in the Formation of an Human Body.”

Source: The British Essayists: Containing the Spectator, with Notes and General Index, and the Tatler and Guardian, with Notes and General Index

“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”

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Book:Homo Faber

Source: Homo Faber

“In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in.”

Humans Dream Body Natural Secret Taken Objects Youth Sensual Human Body Delighted

Author:Haniel Long

“The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.”

World Humans Soul Self Body Human Beings Subjects Philosophical Property Boundaries Psychological Metaphysical Human Body Human Soul

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.”

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Author:Georg Hermes

“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”

“Some springs are acid, as at Lyncestus and in Italy in the Velian country, at Teano in Campania, and in many other places. These when used in drinks have the power of breaking up stones in the bladder, which form in the human body.”

Humans Country Body Form Used Drink Spring Stones Human Body Acid Bladder

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.”

Humans Body Economy Understood Economics Doctors Complexes Accurate Predictions Economist Human Body Reluctant Complex Systems

Author:Alice Rivlin

“Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear.”

“It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.”

Humans Long Has Beens Soul Ends Body Given Poor Mass Ridiculous Globes Interfere Human Body Trifling Stingy

Book:Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Source: Leibniz: Philosophical Essays

Ifs Humans Body Car Design Former Makers Human Body Similarity

Author:Richard Asher

“The human body has absolutely no requirement for animal flesh. Nobody has ever been found face-down 20 yards from Burger King because they couldn't get their Whopper in time.”

Humans Body Faces Found Animal Kings Flesh Vegetarian Vegan Yards Requirements Human Body Burgers Burger King

Author:Michael Klaper

“We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.”

Ifs Humans Ideas Body Care Process Imagine Goodness Complexes Environmental Mysterious Unconscious Screws Human Body Stewardship

Author:Lynn Margulis

“I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.”

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Author:Mehcad Brooks

“Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women.”

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Author:Marielle Heller

“The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.”

Humans Body Human Body

Author:Giorgio Armani

“The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.”

Humans Body Universe Environment Increase Human Body Our Environment

Author:Benjamin Carson

“I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.”

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Author:Thomas Koerfer

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

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Author:Martin Heidegger

“The spirit for me is the eternal self. And when one incarnates, an aspect comes with that incarnation, that's called the soul. And together the mind, the emotional body, and the soul form the energy field that lives within this thing called the human body.”

Mind Humans Soul Self Body Together Form Spirit Energy Fields Emotional Eternal Aspect Human Body Incarnation Energy Fields

Author:Caroline Myss

“The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.”

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Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

“The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.”

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Book:The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi

“It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part of the universe and the universe is intelligent and the human body is part of the cosmic body, and the human mind is part of the cosmic mind, and the atom and the universe are exactly the same thing, but with different form, and the more we are in touch with this deeper reality, from where everything comes, the more we will be able to heal ourselves and at the same time heal our planet.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“All of my fights are planned. I study my opponents from A to Z. How he walks, how he looks, how he speaks, gestures of the human body, which is a certain language that provides you lots of information if you have the ability to read it.”

Ifs Humans Looks Body Certain Fighting Speak Language Ability Walks Study Information Opponents Gestures Human Body

Author:Wladimir Klitschko

“The human body is in constant change the minute we're born. It's in a constant state of decay. We're all like Ford Escorts, just falling apart.”

Humans States Body Humor Funny Fall Born Minutes Constant Decay Falling Apart Human Body

Author:Adam Ferrara

“Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'”

Humans Long Art States Body Motivational Lasts Speak Goal Hero Messages Misery Endure Arise Awake Human Body Fearlessness Atman

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“We are becoming a nation of sissies and hypochondriacs, a self medicating society easily intimidated by pain and prone to panic. We understand almost nothing about the essential robustness of the human body or its ability to meet the challenge of illness.”

Humans Self Body Pain Nations Challenges Ability Becoming Essentials Illness Panic Human Body Intimidated Sissy Homeopathy Hypochondriac Self Medicating

Author:Norman Cousins

“I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.”

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Author:Morarji Desai

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