Vital Functions Quotes

Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

Our body is a machine for living.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

The philosophy of chiropractic is founded upon the knowledge of the manner in which a vital functions are performed by innate in health and disease. When the controlling intelligence is able to transmit mental impulses to all parts of the body, free and unobstructed, we have normal action which is health.

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.

What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life.

The same Being that fashioned the insect, whose existence is only discerned by a microscope, and gave that invisible speck a system of ducts and other organs to perform its vital functions, created the enormous mass of the planet thirteen hundred times larger than our earth, and launched it in its course round the sun, and the comet, wheeling with a velocity that would carry it round our globe in less than two minutes of time, and yet revolving through so prodigious a space that it takes near six centuries to encircle the sun!

For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.