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Topic·Human body✕clear

Philosophical literature

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations · 1953

★ 4.5

Poem

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass · 1855

★ 4.0

Philosophical literature

There are more disorders of the mind than of the body, and they are of a more dangerous nature.

Cicero

Tusculan Disputations · 45 BC

★ 3.9

Film · Romantic comedy (film) · Comedy (film) · Romantic comedy · Comedy

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

John Beckwith

Wedding Crashers · 2005

★ 3.7

Novel

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.

Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace · 1869

★ 2.2

Play

To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.

Plautus

184 BC

★ 2.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 6:19 · 55

★ 2.1

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure. It is through it that I best succeed in expressing the almost religious feeling I have towards life.

Henri Matisse

1908

★ 1.9

Lecture

Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

Vladimir Nabokov

★ 1.9

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