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Body Quotes by Alan Watts
- If the earth is man's extended body, to be loved and respected as one's own body, those who do no greening of themselves will hardly…
- The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of…
- A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
- A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.
- And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of…
- Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to…
- Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off…
- For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch…
- Society is our extended mind and body.
- If the human race develops an electronic nervous system, outside the bodies of individual people, thus giving us all one mind and one global body,…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine