Prosthetic Limbs

Famous quotes containing the words prosthetic and/or limbs:

“Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)

“If a man’s eye falls
on any of her limbs first,
it is stuck on that spot.
No one at all sees her body whole.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)