• The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

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• The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

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• The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

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• The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

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• The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells.

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  Anonymous

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• The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

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• What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

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• What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

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• Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softnes

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

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• Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

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  Anonymous

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