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Body Quotes - Page 86

If the body had been easier to understand, nobody would have thought that we had a mind.

Richard Rorty (2008). “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature”, p.239, Princeton University Press

What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to.

Rex Stout (2010). “Too Many Cooks”, p.79, Bantam

The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew… it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.

"In the Beauty of the Lilies: A Love Story That Opens Doors to Spiritual Values". Book by Gerald O. Doyle (p. 56), 2002.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.232, Penguin

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

"In Ga., Abramoff Scandal Threatens a Political Ascendancy" by Thomas B. Edsall, www.washingtonpost.com. January 16, 2006.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.88, Delphi Classics

A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.

Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

Paul Bowles (2002). “The Sheltering Sky: Let it Come Down ; The Spider's House”