Admiring Quote by Joseph Addison

The human body is not an instrument to be used, but a realm of one's being to be experienced, explored, enriched and, thereby, educated.

— Thomas Hanna

What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded…

— Benjamin Disraeli

“You see, the foundations of our culture were laid in classical Greece, where physical beauty and the body were celebrated. But our culture is…

— Ted Chiang

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve…

— Robert Genn

“If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients…

— Vitruvius

Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest…

— Robert Nozick

To transcend the identification with the body one has to realize the auspiciousness and divinity residing within each cell of the body. One needs…

— Amit Ray

“Our aim for ever must be the pursuit of the knowledge of Man in his entirety. To study the flesh, the skin, the bones,…

— Dylan Thomas

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

— Max Frisch

“Self-knowledge can, and ought, to apply not only to the soul, but also to the body; the man without insight into the fabric of…

— Bill Hayes

A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul, and formed…

— David Brainerd

“Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the…

— Deborah Davis