Body

Body

With regard to living things, a body is the physical body of an individual. "Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The study of the workings of the body is physiology.

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Famous quotes containing the word body:

    “Summer, this is our flesh,
    The body you let mature;
    If now while the body is fresh
    You take it, shall we give
    The heart....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “The concept of a person is logically prior to that of an individual consciousness. The concept of a person is not to be analysed as that of an animated body or an embodied anima.”
    —Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)