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Body Quotes - Page 87

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

"Novalis". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

Nicholas Culpeper (1832). “Culpeper's Complete Herbal, and English Physician ... To which is annexed, The British Florist, or Flower garden displayed, etc. With plates, including a portrait”, p.336

The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body.

"Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 2, ch. 3, translation by Mansfield and Tarcov, 1517.

We were staring at the origin of a piece of our own bodies inside this 375-million-year-old fish. We had a fish with a wrist.

Neil Shubin (2008). “Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body”, p.38, Vintage

The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

"Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.

Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.9, Oxford University Press

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.129, New York Review of Books