A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity.
Quotes about disembodied (11 Quotes)
Science, being human enquiry, can hear no answer except an answer couched somehow in human tones. Primitive man stood in the mountains and shouted against a cliff the echo brought back his own voice, and he believed in a disembodied spirit. The scientist of today stands counting out loud in the face of the unknown. Numbers come back to him - and he believes in the Great Mathematician.
The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery
How shall I know thee in the sphere which keepsThe disembodied spirits of the dead,When all of thee that time could wither sleepsAnd perishes among the dust we tread
Sacraments, like the Incarnation itself, constitute physical points at which the eternal touches time, or the unseen touches the seen, or grace touches nature. It is the Gnostics and Manicheans who want a purely disembodied religion.
For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old
Make no mistake Your Catholic family and mine - not some disembodied Catholic institution - are the financial targets of these lawsuits,
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
If you would keep your soul From spotted sight or sound, Live like the velvet mole Go burrow underground. And there hold intercourse With roots of trees and stones, With rivers at their source, And disembodied bones.
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes that all history originates in human flesh that all oppression is inflicted by the body of one against the body of another that all social change is built on the bone and muscle. . .