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Body Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as…
- Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And…
- Our own body is in the world as the heart is in the organism: it keeps the visible spectacle constantly alive, it breathes life into…
- The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.
- I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in…
- To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body…
- The body is our general medium for having a world.
- Visible and mobile, my body is a thing among things; it's caught in the fabric of the world, and its cohesion is that of a…
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