Famous quotes containing the words total, body and/or water:
“The only way into truth is through ones own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951)
“By constant dripping, water hollows stone,
A signet-ring from use alone grows thin,
And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)