"The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies."
Read quote
3 likes
Body quotes
Body
4.7K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Body
Browse quotes that often appear alongside body — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Body quotes (page 67 of 236)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The body can feed the body only."
Read quote
3 likes
"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore."
Read quote
3 likes
"Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?"
Read quote
3 likes
"What is man but a mass of thawing clay?"
Read quote
3 likes
"You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not."
Read quote
3 likes
"You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body"
Read quote
3 likes
"My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal."
Read quote
3 likes
"I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon."
Read quote
3 likes
"I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office."
Read quote
3 likes
"His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body."
Read quote
3 likes
""Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?"
Read quote
3 likes
"Every living body continuously eliminates feces, it rejects what is not serviceable to the assimilating organism: what man despises, what arouses his disgust, what he calls evil, are excrements."
Read quote
3 likes
"There is more wisdom in your body than in your best wisdom. And who then knows why your body needs precisely your best wisdom?"
Read quote
3 likes
"I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent."
Read quote
3 likes
"When one thinks profusely and cleverly, not only his face but his body too takes on a clever appearance."
Read quote
3 likes
"In true love it is the soul that envelops the body."
Read quote
3 likes
"Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else."
Read quote
3 likes
"The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation."
Read quote
3 likes
"Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment."
Read quote
3 likes