"Every man is the builder of a temple…" — Henry David Thoreau
"Every man is the builder of a temple called his 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… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — 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… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine