Organs Quotes

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

— Van Wyck Brooks

...the heart is an organ of fire.

— Michael Ondaatje

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

— Alice Weaver Flaherty

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

— Konrad Adenauer

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

— Hilary Mantel

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.”

— Sigmund Freud

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

— Vladimir Nabokov

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

— John Medina

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

— Malcolm Bradbury

My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly.

— Robert Baldwin

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just…

— George Allen

It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

— Irving Layton

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.

— Eric Topol

Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

— Isaac of Nineveh

Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it…

— William Henry Drummond

Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still…

— Richard Wagner

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach…

— Jerome K. Jerome

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…

— Arthur Koestler

Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets…

— Adyashanti

What a strange expression said the herbalist who would compare themselves to chopped liver in the first place? If you have to…

— Christopher Paolini

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a…

— C. S. Lewis

Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming,…

— Suzanne Somers

Institutionalized desublimation thus appears to be an aspect of the "conquest of transcendence" achieved by the one-dimensional society. Just as this society…

— Herbert Marcuse

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same…

— Joseph Campbell

“Organs are supple and capable of adapting to different situations and domains. Finally, they are open to development, and this is precisely…

— Ulrich Müller

No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs…

— Joe Slovo

For years we've been treating men and women as though the only differences had to do with our sexual organs. The field…

— Jed Diamond

In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency.…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It isn't the height that scares me - the height makes me feel alive with energy, every organ and vessel and muscle…

— Veronica Roth

Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature…

— Robert Frenay

So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass…

— Erasmus Darwin

“Love hasn't got anything to do with the heart, the heart's a disgusting organ, a sort of pump full of blood. Love…

— Frédéric Beigbeder

Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it…

— Elizabeth Bowen

On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was…

— Anonymous

The frequent employment of one's will power masters all organs of movement and trains them to perform feats which otherwise would have…

— George Hackenschmidt

The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides…

— Romano Guardini

There's a reason I said I'd be happy alone. It wasn't 'cause I thought I'd be happy alone. It was because I…

— Shonda Rhimes