Bodily Quotes

265 Bodily quotes by 211 unique authors

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Poetry is the most bodily of the arts. — Robert Pinsky
The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.… — Robert Pinsky
You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I'm an elderly gentleman. I haven't been in a fight involving bodily contact in 60 years. Look, I fall trying to put on my underwear… — Pete Stark
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the… — William Allingham
I do not say the mind gets informed by action, â€” bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless… — William Mountford
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in… — Malcolm De Chazal
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to… — Pope Pius XII
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or… — Peter Singer
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered… — William Butler Yeats
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes… — Cornel West
Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer… — Wilhelm Wundt
There are three layers to the universe. In the lower, Tai Ching, and the middle, Shan Ching, the hindrance of a physical bodily existence is… — Laozi
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and… — Frederick Law Olmsted
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by… — William James
Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from… — Plato
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time… — John Ruskin

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