Lin Yutang Quotes

The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project

The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.

We do not "have" a body; rather, we "are" bodily.

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs.

To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense.

The elemental world we all live in is the darkness of the body.

If you want to find the answers to the Big Questions about your soul, you'd best begin with the Little Answers about your body.

The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

The body is our general medium for having a world.

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.

It is disgusting -- Why must we have bodies?

The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a van, once in the van, one feels completely lost. But then, once you have learnt how to drive, the whole van is in your body. It is integrated into your body.

The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming out through the chest and the voice box and through the mouth to shape sounds that have meaning. It's bodily.

My kingdom for a more embodied body

(I measure time by how a body sways.)

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

I don’t have a body, I am a body.

The difficulty is to learn to perceive with your whole body, not with just your eyes and reason. The world becomes a stream of tremendously rapid, unique events. So you must trim your body to make it a good receptor. The body is an awareness; and it must be treated impeccably.