Bodies Quotes

You just can't have this kind of war. There aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. The proposition is proved to be true, because the boundary of a thing is a surface, which is not part of the body contained within that surface; nor is it part of the air surrounding that body, but is the medium interposted between the air and the body, as is proved in its place.

All bodies together, and each by itself, give off to the surrounding air an infinite number of images which are all-pervading and each complete, each conveying the nature, colour and form of the body which produces it.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

That cause which moves the water through its springs against the natural course of its gravity is like that which moves the humours in all the shapes of animated bodies.

The eye which finds itself in the centre between the shadows and the lights that surround the shaded bodies, will see in these bodies thegreater shadows that are in them meeting themselves within equal angles that is of the visual incidence.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Our bodies are perishable, wealth is not at all permanent and death is always nearby. Therefore we must immediately engage in acts of merit.