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Organs Quotes

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Kevin Kelly (2010). “What Technology Wants”, p.268, Penguin

The pimp is the executive organ of immorality. The executive organ of morality is the blackmailer.

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Sylvia Plath (2010). “Winter Trees”, p.32, Faber & Faber

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Sigmund Freud (1992). “The Diary of Sigmund Freud 1929-1939: A Record of the Final Decade”

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.518, Delphi Classics

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.

"Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.

Stories are the reproductive organs of language.

Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.269, Wordsworth Editions

Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

Emanuel Swedenborg (1781). “True Christian religion: containing the universal theology of the New Church: now first tr. [by J. Clowes].”, p.131