Organs Quotes - Page 2

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't.

Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience.

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

The German language is the organ among the languages.

My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that he was given to such lapses.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

[T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.