Martin Heidegger Quotes

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

The human body is the most complex system ever created. The more we learn about it, the more appreciation we have about what a rich system it is.

Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

I've always been fascinated by the body and the mind.

There is something fundamentally fascinating about the mechanics, I guess, of the human body and where consciousness and mind exist, and what you can do with the mechanics of the body while keeping those intact, and where those two cross over.

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections; not from positions of philosophers but from the fabric of nature.

The body is an amazing system.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.

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

The body cannot be the soul.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

We disjoint the mind like the body.

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I dunno.

Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made.