So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it... is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dance is bigger than the physical body. ...When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're da...ncing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of hu...man society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs... from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are two kinds of timidity--timidity of mind, and timidity of the nerves; physical timidity, and moral timidity. Each is inde...pendent of the other. The body may be frightened and quake while the mind remains calm and bold, and vice versë. This is the key to many eccentricities of conduct. When both kinds meet in the same man he will be good for nothing all his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His poor, crazy, deformed body was a mere Pandora's box, containing all the physical ills that ever afflicted humanity. This, perh...aps, whetted the edge of his satire, and may in some degree excuse it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the sp...irit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a mat...erial environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »