Mind-body Dichotomy Quotes

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

"Ego," sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not "ego," but doeth it.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

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

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

The intelligence of the mind can't think of any reason to live, but it goes on anyway because the intelligence of the cells can't think of any reason to die.

Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.