Our Bodily Quotes
13 quotes by 12 authors
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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And just as He appeared before the holy Apostles in true flesh, so now He has us see Him in the Sacred Bread. Looking at…
— Francis of Assisi
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the…
— A. N. Wilson
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to…
— Pope Pius XII
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Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.
— Giordano Bruno
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For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our…
— George Lakoff
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Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring:…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Gravity pulls our bodily fluids down, like water in a glass goes to the bottom part of a glass. In space, the water doesn't stay…
— Laurel Clark
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Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and range of movement…
— Richard Shusterman
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Ninety percent of our lives is governed by emotion. Our brains merely register and act upon what is telegraphed to them by our bodily experience.…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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If our greatest hungers were to be granted as easily as our bodily needs, we certainly would never be able to achieve the noble feelings…
— Anne Austin
Who Wrote These Our Bodily Quotes
12 authors contributed a total of 13 Our Bodily Quotes as follows: