Quotes On Body

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. 

Henry David Thoreau

Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?  

Thomas Hardy

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. 

Friedrich Nietzsche

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha

How idiotic civilization is!  Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?  

Katherine Mansfield

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. 

Montaigne 

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.  

Aldous Huxley

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.  

Llewelyn Powers

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts.  

Samuel Butler

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body.  We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it. 

Thomas Carlyle