Organs Quotes - Page 19

• Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Life, Men

  Emanuel Swedenborg (1781). “True Christian religion: containing the universal theology of the New Church: now first tr. [by J. Clowes].”, p.131

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• The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

  Richard Wagner

  Beautiful, Voice, Humans

  Richard Wagner (1900). “Opera and Drama”, p.122, U of Nebraska Press

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• When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!

  Peter Kropotkin

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Lying, Real

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• Yeah, okay. You're right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steak, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn't tell. In exchange I asked him to gather his best undead buddies and stalk me through my friend's yard. And oh, yeah, it was totally fine if they wanted to use me as an all-night-dinner buffet, because having organs is SO last year.

  Gena Showalter

  Night, Years, Vintage

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• When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual delight, communicates the taste of that delight during the act and summons forth the emission of the man's seed. And when the seed has fallen into its place, that vehement heat descending from her brain draws the seed to itself and holds it, and soon the woman's sexual organs contract and all parts that are ready to open up during the time of menstruation now close, in the same way as a strong man can hold something enclosed in his fist.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Strong, Men, Making Love

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• I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of re-deployment, of the entire muscular equipment, and through that of many other organs. Compared with this, many types of physiotherapy which are now in general use look surprisingly crude and restricted in their effect - and sometimes even harmful to the rest of the body.

  Nikolaas Tinbergen

  Deployment, Use, Body

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• By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

  William Grey Walter

  Imagination, Brain, Firsts

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• On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot, I would see these same men sitting in the pews with their wives and children, asking God to forgive them and purge them of carnal desires. And the next Saturday they'd be back at the carnival or some other place of indulgence. I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out no matter how much it is purged or scoured by any white-light religion.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Girl, Christian, Morning

  "The Satanic Bible" by Anton Szandor LaVey, As quoted in the Introduction by Burton H. Wolfe, 1969.

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• They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed up any thing lascivious or impure; as also all secular actions; vain and therefore profane conversations, all walking about, noise, and clamour, that so the house of God may be seen to be, and may be called, truly a house of prayer.

  Pope Pius IV

  Prayer, House, Singing

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• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to be styled the heart of the world. For it is by the heart's vigorous beat that the blood is moved, perfected, activated, and protected from injury and coagulation. The heart is the tutelary deity of the body, the basis of life, the source of all things, carrying out its function of nourishing, warming, and activating body as a whole. But we shall more fittingly speak of these matters when we consider the final cause of this kind of movement.

  William Harvey

  Heart, Blood, Finals

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• The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed purely for pleasure.

  Eve Ensler

  Purpose, Body, Pleasure

  Eve Ensler (2001). “The Vagina Monologues: The V-Day Edition”, p.51, Villard

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• Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Beautiful, Art, Imagination

  Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company

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• The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Aggravation, Growth, Patterns

  "Chemistry: 1901-1921" by Nobel Foundation, (p. 166), 1966.

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• Without a daily supply of proteins, vitamins, and minerals, no matter how much energy we get in the form of calories, our bodies and minds deteriorate because we are not able to fully replace the dying cells in our internal and external organs.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Cells, Vitamins And Minerals, Mind

  Paul Zane Pilzer (2012). “The New Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry”, p.71, John Wiley & Sons

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• To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Years, Giving

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.42, Basic Books

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• Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Echoes, Keys, One Day

  "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)

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• When the male organ of a man stands erect, two thirds of his intelect go away. And one third of his religion.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, Two, Going Away

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• Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Streets, Sidewalk

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage

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• If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sex, Thinking, Tears

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act of inner receptivity. It is the total person who hears. Sometimes the skin seems to be the best listener, as it prickles and thrills, say to a sound or a silence; or the fantasy, the imagination: how it bursts into inner pictures as it listens and then responds by pressing its language, its forms, into the listening clay. To be open to what we hear, to be open in what we say. .

  Mary Caroline Richards

  Imagination, Silence, Listening

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• The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Temptation, Listening

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• All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases, chests, cupboards, and ovens represent the uterus...Rooms in dreams are usually women...Many landscapes in dreams, especially any containing breidges or wooded hills, may clearly be recognized as descriptions of the genitals.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Tree, Uterus

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• The Post-Dispatch will serve no party but the people; be no organ of Republicanism, but the organ of truth; will follow no causes bit its conclusions; will not support the Administration, but criticize it; will oppose all frauds and shams wherever or whatever they are; will advocate principles and ideas rather than prejudices and partisanship.

  Joseph Pulitzer

  Party, Ideas, People

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• The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

  Herbert Croly

  Rights, Expression, Political

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.

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