Quotes about body (4854 quotes, page 48)

“Since a great part of those Learned Men, especially Physicians who have discerned the defects of the vulgar Philosophy, but are not yet come to understand and relish the Corpuscularian, have slid into the Doctrine of the Chymists; and since the Spagyrists are wont to pretend to make out all the Qualities of bodies from the Predominancy of some one of their three Hypostatical Principles, I suppose it may both keep my opinion from appearing too presumptuous, and (which is far more considerable) may make way for the fairer Reception of the Mechanical Hypothesis about Qualities, if I here intimate (though but briefly and in general) some of those defects, that I have observed in Chymists Explications of Qualities.”

Robert Boyle (1627–1691) English natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor

Source: Of the Imperfection of The Chymist's Doctrine of Qualities (1675)

Understanding , Learning , Appearance , Way

“People say I am eccentric and frail. Well, I may be frail in body and hearing, but I hope my state of mind is as alert as ever it was and I am going to speak my mind as freely as I have ever done. I am a common man and I speak for the common people of England and from the letters I receive, the great majority agree with me.”

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning (1899–1999) British judge

Interview (16 August 1990), quoted in The Times (17 August 1990), p. 1

People , Hope

“I think if anything is malicious… when somebody can look at harvesting and selling the little heart… of a baby who has been freshly killed — if someone can look at trading that body part for money — if anything is malicious, I think that’s malicious: treating people like things.”

David Daleiden (1989) American anti-abortion activist

Undercover Planned Parenthood investigator David Daleiden: ‘No one is going to be able to say anymore that they didn’t know’ https://www.liveaction.org/news/undercover-investigator-planned-parenthood-daleiden-know/ (June 7, 2020)

Money , Baby , People , Heart

“My body was flesh, which was only one step removed from shit, from clay, from dust.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

How to Save Your Own Life (1977)

“We be informed by our judges that we at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head and you as members are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury (during that time) is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.”

Henry VIII of England (1491–1547) King of England from 1509 until 1547

Speech to Parliament on parliamentary privilege (March/April 1542), as quoted in Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland Volume III (1808), by Raphael Holinshed, p. 824

Personality , Time , Housing

“Any emotion affects our thoughts, our beliefs and our actions. Strong positive emotions exert great power over the human body and the whole world.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Qualsiasi emozione influisce sui nostri pensieri, le nostre credenze e le nostre azioni. Le forti emozioni positive esercitano un grande potere sul corpo umano e sul mondo intero.
Source: prevale.net

World , Strong

“The brain isn't the cause of experience for the same reason that lightning isn't the cause of atmospheric electric discharge, or that flames aren't the cause of combustion. Just as flames are but the image of the process of combustion, the body-brain system is but the image of localized experience in the stream of universal consciousness.”

Bernardo Kastrup Dutch computer scientist and philosopher

" Why the World Is Imagined: Summary https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2018/12/why-world-is-imagined-summary.html", Metaphysical Speculations, 1 Dec. 2018

Universe

“It’s been a long time since I wagered so much on a single throw. Though if I’m to revisit the desperation of my youth, I want the body back, too.”

Lois McMaster Bujold Vorkosigan Saga

Source: Vorkosigan Saga, Captain Vorpatril's Alliance (2012), Chapter 15 (p. 337)

Time , Youth

“Do you see? There exists a kind of knowledge that is without love. It does not purify the psyche in any way, but kills it, as it lacks the love that is the head, the body, and very root of all virtue.”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: Holy Hesychia: The Stillness that Knows God, p. 33

Way , Love , Making love , Knowledge

“As the separation of the soul from the body is the death of the body, so the separation of God from the soul is the death of the soul. And this death of the soul is the true death.”

Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) Monk and archbishop

Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296

Soul , Death , God

“The eye of the soul cannot be led astray when its veil, by which I mean the body, is refined to near-transparency through self-control.”

Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint

§ 71
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)

Self-confidence , Soul

“[T]he belief that the bodies of other beings take a necessary part in human alimentation is more than a tradition: it is a convenience. For if human beings can hold on to the feeling that the flesh and blood of their fellows are in some way necessary to them, they are comparatively immune from those disturbances which the most cowed conscience is at times disposed to stir up.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: The New Ethics (1907), What Shall We Eat?, p. 78

Way , Time , Feeling , Parting

“If a woman has chosen to gift a fetus with life, it does not necessarily follow that she is obligated to continue to support it with her body, especially if that support threatens the woman’s life. A woman’s body is her property, to do with as she wishes.”

Mary Ruwart (1949) American scientist and libertarian activist

Source: Short Answers to the Tough Questions: How to Answer the Questions Libertarians Are Often Asked, (2012), p. 141

Support , Life

“Women are unquestionably destined to exercise more and more influence upon practical politics in Australia…In the educating of the electorate in liberal ideas they have for many years been an effective force. Now we have an organisation in which all distinctions have gone, and with men and women working equally for the one body …”

Robert Menzies (1894–1978) Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia

Albury Conference, 1944
Wilderness Years (1941-1949)
Source: http://www.australianquotes.com/quotes_1950-present.php

Men , Education , Idea , Women

“If you feel good about what you put on your face - or body - that's really putting your best foot forward.”

Jamie Chung (1983) American actress

As quoted in "Jamie Chung Reveals The 'Real' (Adorable) Reason She's Marrying Bryan Greenberg" in The Huffington Post (16 May 2014) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-chung-tj-maxx_n_5325129

Feeling

“Today’s fashion magazines may carry an article about the dangers of anorexia while bombarding its readers with images of emaciated young bodies representing the height of beauty and desirability.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

As quoted in Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (2014), p.34

Beauty , Fashion

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

Strong , Health

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

Mencius (-372–-289 BC) Chinese philosopher

Friendship , Friendship , For Friend , For Bestfriend

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Life

“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.”

William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania

Sleep , Silence

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Idea , Success , Dreams , Thinking

“Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“I don't know what my body is for other than just taking my head from room to room.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

Kid Gorgeous (2018)

“To be a famous woman is to constantly have every part of your body and soul subjected to endless critique. You know, if you're one pound overweight they call you "fatty."”

Natalie Wynn ContraPoints

If you're one pound underweight they say you have an eating disorder. And if you're exactly the right weight? They call you a fatty with an eating disorder!
J.K. Rowling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us, published 2021-01-26
ContraPoints

Soul , Parting

“The body attracts what the mind seduces.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Il corpo attrae ciò che la mente seduce.
Source: prevale.net

“True lovers will be able to enter the garden of beauty without fear of being judged. They will no longer be two bodies and two souls meeting, but a single fountain out of which pours the true water of life.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Life , Soul , Beauty , Water

“And even if this causes major changes in our world, we have nothing to lose, because by opening the door that unites body and soul, what we will gain is total love.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Soul , World , Love , Change

“If two bodies merely join together, that is not sex, it is merely pleasure. Sex goes far beyond pleasure. In sex, relaxation and tension go hand in hand, as do pain and pleasure, shyness and the courage to go beyond one’s limits.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About sex

Courage , Pain , Sex , Pleasure

“Is the erotic rhythm of a body that transforms emotion into pure transgression.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) È il ritmo erotico di un corpo che trasforma l'emozione in pura trasgressione.
Source: prevale.net

“The doctors said they've never seen a body kill the Coronavirus like my body. They tested my DNA and it wasn't DNA. It was USA.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

Reportedly said by Trump after he was hospitalized with COVID-19, following an outbreak of the disease in the White House; the quote actually originates from an image featuring a fabricated subtitle overlaid on a video released by the President while he was in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-coronavirus-kill-body/
Misattributed

“She, of a particular and unique beauty. The features of his face and her body are of a subtle transgression that blends between sweetness and sensuality. Her charm smells of woman.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Lei, di una particolare ed unica bellezza. I lineamenti del suo volto e del suo corpo sono di una sottile trasgressione che si fonde tra dolcezza e sensualità. Il suo fascino profuma di donna.
Source: prevale.net

Beauty

“You don’t tear up the room because there’s a sweet spot for the microphones, and you can’t deviate very far from that or else the engineer gets mad. You have to act with your whole body, but keep it right in the zone.”

Dee Bradley Baker (1962) American voice actor

Denver’s “Clone Wars,” “Phineas and Ferb” voice actor on working (from home) through a pandemic https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/08/21/dee-bradley-baker-interview/243747/ (August 21, 2020)

Madness , Tear

“Identification with the body is a state that consciousness needs to experience for a while. But eventually, grace will compel consciousness to transcend this severe limitation and guide it home to its original nature.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Home , Nature

“What we are is consciousness. The body is the vehicle through which consciousness can taste experiencing. And in the human form, consciousness has the capacity and opportunity to realise its own source and thus come into a direct experience of this.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

“Everything you can perceive comes and goes, including your own body. You are the one looking at time, objects, and even thoughts and emotions.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Time

“All that we refer to as being ours – our body, our mind, our emotions – is not what we are, essentially.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

“The concept I am the body is the core belief we adopt very early on... We take ourselves to be a particular body with a unique personality, and this perspective remains with us as we live our lives.”

Mooji (1954) Jamaican spiritual teacher

Greater than Sky, Vaster than Space, (2018), Part I

Personality

“The work of the liturgy transcends us because it is Christ’s work, and it is our privilege to participate. This work is an art, sanctioned by the Church, which is Christ’s Body. In the liturgy we present what He has intended to make lasting for the salvation of mankind until all is consummated.”

Glen Provost (1949) Catholic bishop

Bishop Provost’s Chrism Mass Homily for 2021 http://www.lcdiocese.org/the-diocese/our-bishop/homilies/3150-bishop-provost-s-chrism-mass-homily-for-2021 (31 March 2021)

Art , Christ

“You know what else I'm sick and tired of? I'm sick and tired of men making laws about our bodies and our choices and our lives without consulting us.”

Kate Kelly (1980) American feminist

We raised our voices here': Massive women's march headlines Utah Legislature's opening day: Rally organizers vow to track bills related to women's rights and discrimination, The Salt Lake Tribune, Steve Griffin https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=4853488&itype=CMSID, (25 January 2017)

Law , Men

“The brain is a gland of unity: the brain is one with the body.”

Richard Bergland neuroscientist

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

“Molecules move not only from the brain to the endocrine system but also from the endocrine system, indeed, from all parts of the body to the brain.”

Richard Bergland neuroscientist

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Parting

“Brain/body relationships might depend upon a chorus of individual hormones... which are released together to sing hormonal harmonies to the body.”

Richard Bergland neuroscientist

The Fabric of Mind (1985)

Singing , Dependency

“Listen, days decay, like food, like fish, like dead bodies. This night will decay, too and you will forget. Listen, we will forget.”

Chigozie Obioma (1986) Nigerian writer

The fishermen (2015)

Night , Dead , Food , Forgetting

“The moment I understood that what's been keeping my success back is thinking that I'm still young, I grew up not in body shape but mind.”

Edykasawuli7

Success , Thinking

“Ultimately, this appointment is not about me; it is about Jesus Christ, and about how we, as living members of the body of Christ, bring him to the world by the way we live out our baptismal vocation with love.”

Anthony Randazzo (1966) Australian bishop

Bishop Randazzo to lead Diocese of Broken Bay https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/bishop-randazzo-to-lead-diocese-of-broken-bay/ (October 7, 2019)

World , Christ , Way , Love

“Common sense is the great thing in all this. You eat what you find through a minimum requirement keeps your body healthy. Each individual and each group finds for itself the diet which suits its purposes, climate, tradition and background.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

Source: The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

Sense

“I kind of knew coming back after giving birth was gonna be a process and that I was going to have to be patient with myself and my body. [But] I definitely put pressure on myself.”

Alex Morgan (1989) American soccer player

"Alex Morgan Reveals How She Bounced Back After Childbirth & How Daughter ‘Magnified’ Her Equal Pay Fight" https://hollywoodlife.com/2020/11/17/alex-morgan-post-baby-body-training-soccer-equal-pay-interview/ (November 17, 2020)

Birth

“If life is a mixture of drained rivers / which carry to the sea echoes of water, / we are nothing but shadows – / reflected lights of dead bodies without no possible outlet or shore.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

From The Poetry of Menotti Lerro, p. 37

Light , Water , Sea , Dead

“We do not have anything, but the body. The soul is an invention, dust of the cross.”

Menotti Lerro (1980) Italian poet

Non abbiamo che il corpo. L’anima è un’invenzione, polvere di croce.

Soul

“What a glorious time of the year is this [Spring]! With the warm sun travelling through serene skies, the air clear and fresh above you, which instils new blood in the body, making one defiantly tramp the earth, kicking the snows aside in the scorn of action.”

William Henry Davies book The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp

Source: The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp (1908), Ch. XIX

Spring , Travel , Time , Sun