Organs Quotes
507 quotes by 403 authors
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Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also…
— Aristotle
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This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.
— Charles Scott Sherrington
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The…
— Albert Einstein
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Indeed, the term body (jism), organs ('arad), extent (mutahayyiz) and their like are all newly-invented terminologies. We have mentioned many a time before that the…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
— Klaus Schulze
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As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel from…
— Thomas Metzinger
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I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was…
— Keith Emerson
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No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me the ideal environment in which…
— Tadao Ando
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I…
— Gloria Steinem
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But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the…
— Max Horkheimer
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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the…
— Charles Babbage
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;…
— Virginia Woolf
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Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is the center of…
— Anodea Judith
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A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us…
— Diane Ackerman
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HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that…
— Ambrose Bierce
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A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs.
— Des MacHale
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If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.
— Malcolm Bradbury
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