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Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. -- Aldous Huxley
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. -- Edmond de Goncourt
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares. -- Jack Kevorkian
It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. -- Vic Snyder
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. -- William Osler
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
I think you should automatically donate your organs because that would turn the balance of organ donation in a huge way. I would donate whatever anybody would take, and I'd probably do the cremation bit. -- George Clooney
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
In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals, Vital Organs, Absentees, and Goners. But in the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases. -- John Irving
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. -- Timothy Leary
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. -- C. S. Lewis
Today healing energy constantly flows through every organ, joint and cell in my body. -- Louise Hay
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? -- William Shakespeare
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system. -- Jean Cocteau
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. -- Johannes Peter Muller
The science of style as an organ of thought, of style in relation to the ideas and feelings, might be called the organology of style. -- Thomas de Quincey
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. -- Harvey Cushing
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. -- Edgar Rice Burroughs
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use. -- Arthur Koestler
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. -- Thomas Wolfe
Social Democratic and trade union organs have approved of the illegal invasion of Belgium, of the massacre of suspected guerrillas, as well as their wives and children, as well as the destruction of their homes in various towns and districts. -- Clara Zetkin
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs. -- Sigmund Freud
I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? -- William Shakespeare
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. -- Ferdinand de Saussure
My organs are too powerful... I manufacture blood and fat too rapidly. -- Robert Baldwin
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. -- G. Stanley Hall
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? -- Michio Kaku
My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up like the movie 'Hugo,' and then just say, 'Act,' you know? -- Gillian Jacobs
Since my asana techniques increase circulation to all organs in the body and increase lung efficiency, I recommend Bikram Balance natural whole food beverage as a way to provide all the critical nutrients to oxygenate the blood and restore the acid/alkaline balance. -- Bikram Choudhury
I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense. -- Leonardo da Vinci
When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforted knowing that my father would be able to give others a second chance at life. That is why I encourage everyone to sign up to be a donor. -- John Perez
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream. There is even an air of conspiracy in the way that tumours use chemical signals to create cancer-friendly niches in remote organs. -- Paul Davies
The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment. -- Emile Durkheim
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. -- Nikola Tesla
All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed. -- Nikola Tesla
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections. -- Francis Collins
A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments. -- Ha-Joon Chang
In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done. -- Robert Lanza
Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig. -- Michael Specter
The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer. -- Yuvraj Singh
Diseased organs get the most attention. -- Marty Rubin
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. -- Kevin Kelly
Stories are the reproductive organs of language. -- Robert Bringhurst
All human organs eventually tire, only the tongue doesn't. -- Konrad Adenauer
One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals. -- Novalis
It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing. -- Bob Hope
The inner man has access to the sense organs of god. -- Carl Jung
The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious. -- John Harvey Kellogg
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs. -- Eric Topol
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man -- Idries Shah
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs. -- W. D. Hamilton
Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs. -- Herbert M. Shelton
Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs. -- Jean-Martin Charcot
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea. -- David Price
If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs. -- Michelle Sagara
Gymn says your fine. He's examined your internal organs and found nothing lacking. -- Donita K. Paul
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss. -- Irving Layton
When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species. -- Wayne Pacelle
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. -- Jane Jacobs
The principal organs of the Left...has consistently been warm and welcoming toward Islamic supremacism. -- Robert Spencer
The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction. -- Aristotle
Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body. -- Plato
As you know, birds do not have sexual organs because they would interfere with flight. -- Dave Barry
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs. -- Malcolm Bradbury
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs. -- Alexis Carrel
The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes. -- Kevin Kelly
Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs -- Josh Stern
If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good! -- Christopher Vogler
The Kinsey Institute says gay men have bigger sex organs. Hence the origin of gay pride. -- Jay Leno
Organic chemistry is the study of organs; inorganic chemistry is the study of the insides of organs. -- Max Shulman
Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree. -- Mehmet Oz
The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes. -- Leland Ryken
Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When i feel tense, I remember to relax all of the muscles and organs in my body -- Louise Hay
I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs. -- Ornette Coleman
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. -- David Mitchell
Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance. -- Joseph Pilates
The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. -- Carson McCullers
For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism. -- Walter Rudolf Hess
Increasingly, we are seeing cyber attacks coming from states, organs of states. The most recent and troubling of these has been Russia. -- Hillary Clinton
A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs. -- Des MacHale
Like the body that is made up of different limbs and organs, all moral creatures must depend on each other to exist -- Proverb
Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out? -- Richelle Mead
Just as your physical body is composed of tissue, organs, bones, and different parts, so your subtle physical body has many different parts. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. -- Norman Cousins
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise. -- Harold E. Varmus
The issue of xenotransplantation - such as transplanting animal organs into humans - is fraught with risks for animals, naturally, and for people. -- Wayne Pacelle
Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs. -- Charles Duhigg
The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live. -- Hannah Arendt
They say atomic rad-i-ation can hurt your reproductive organs. My answer is, so can a hockey stick. But we don't stop building them. -- Johnny Carson
I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service. -- Andrew Carnegie
My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978. -- George Carlin
Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity. -- Alex Grey
The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. -- Hosea Ballou
The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli. -- Johannes Peter Muller
Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would prefer to believe that a market in fetal organs would empower women to use their reproductive capabilities to their own economic advantage. -- Jacob M. Appel
I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. -- Libba Bray
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface. -- Henry Ward Beecher
This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us. -- Charles Scott Sherrington
New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception. -- Rumi
Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs. -- Andrew Cormier
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years. -- Ian Smith
They examined all my organs. Some of them are quite remarkable and others are not so good. A lot of museums are bidding for them. -- Casey Stengel
Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver. -- George Allen
[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water. -- Kate Orff
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot. -- Swami Vivekananda
An interesting opportunity is actually not just thinking about building organs for patients, but actually building little tiny organs that you could do drug screening on. -- Sangeeta N. Bhatia
Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular. -- Anthony Atala
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community. -- Said Musa

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