Body

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. – Henry Miller

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. – Henry David Thoreau

There is an Indian proverb or axiom that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but, unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. – Rumer Godden, A House with Four Rooms

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. – Osbert Sitwell

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. – D.H. Lawrence

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. – Buddha

How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories

Beyond my body my veins are invisible. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Emotion always has its roots in the unconscious and manifests itself in the body. – Irene Claremont de Castillejo

Man is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions, and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws and hides himself from his own kind. – Montaigne

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. – B.K.S. Iyengar, Yoga: The Path To Holistic Health

He felt it, he said, an honor to wash his face, being, as it was, the temple of the Spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. – Llewelyn Powers

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. – Aldous Huxley

The body never lies. – Martha Graham

Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents. – William Osler

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. – Frank Gillette Burgess

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

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks