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Body Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- For all parts of the body that we see fit to expose to the wind and air are found fit to endure it: face, feet,…
- The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper…
- Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes…
- Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must…
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