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Bodily Quotes by William James
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- 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…
- The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
More Bodily Quotes
- We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and… — Saint Augustine
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental. — Samuel Butler
- One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the bodily symbol… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner
- The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not take place,… — Henry M. Morris
- A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. — John Climacus