“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)
“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
Source: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
"The Possibilities in Hypnosis, Where the Patient Has the Power", in The New York Times (3 November 2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/04brody.html?_r=0
“The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.”
Source: The Powerbook (2000)
although many engines move without being touched by any one
VIII. On Mind and Soul, and that the latter is immortal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
In the Belly of the Beast (1981)
“They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.”
On Living in an Atomic Age (1948)
Context: If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They might break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.
“Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno…”
From the song "Still Ill"
From songs