"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."

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"The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism."

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"Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Body, Water

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Body, Mind, Nothing

"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"The body is not a reliable friend."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Body, Friend, Reliability, Trust

"Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

Body,

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Body, Causes, Destruction

"What the mind cannot retain, the body will have to endure."

Edwin Louis Cole, American Author

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"One doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history."

History

"The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking."

Time

"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time."

Time

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."

Action

"Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being."

Time

"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

Nothing

"We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time."

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"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."

Being

"The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being."

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"Only a god can save us."

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