The Body (n.) is a whole such that if a limb is amputated, the body will not give up its way of perceiving the world as full of possibilities for the two arms, even though one is in fact lost. I am conscious of the world via my body and of my body via the world.
The Body (n.) is always something other than what it is: Always sexuality at the same time as freedom, always rooted in nature at the very moment it is transformed by culture... it is never self-enclosed but never transcended.
The Body (n.) is an object in space, rather bodies inhabit space and through them we experience the world and the other.
The Body (n.) is an organ for understanding and comprehending. It is the body which 'understands'.
The Body (n.) is not a mere object in the world and it is not simply a window through which the world presents itself to a waiting consciousness. 'I am my body'.
The Body (n.) is not separate from, say, some emotion like anger. The wild gesticulations, straining, and shouting are not merely an expression of anger. They are the anger. The anger is not elsewhere off in some otherworldly mind. It really is here, in this room and in this part of the room, that the anger breaks forth. It is in the space between him and me that it unfolds.
The Body (n.) is one's vehicle in the world. Having a body is, for a living creature, to be intervolved in a definitive environment, to identify oneself with certain projects, and to be continually committed to them.
The Body (n.) is our general medium for having a world.
The Body (n.) is not an object for an 'I think'. It is simply solicited by a situation to come into harmony with it.
The Body (n.) is that where the distinction between subject and object is blurred.
The Body (n.) 'catches' and 'comprehends movement'. The acquisition of a habit is indeed the grasping of a significance, but it is the motor grasping or a motor significance'.
The Body (n.) is that without which even something as simple as a hammer would be utterly without meaningless. The hammer is something to grasp with the hand, something to build homes with for our vulnerable flesh, something that feels hard and cold in my hand, something that can injure us in our vulnerability.
The Body (n.) is the fabric interwoven throughout all things.
The Body (n.) is in the world just as the heart is in the organism
The Body (n.) is intentional vis-a-vis the world rather than rational, it is characterized by an ‘I can’ rather than an ‘i think’.
The Body (n.) is oriented toward actual or possible tasks or situations, thus it can be said to have a ‘situational spatiality’ in contrast with things whose spatiality is positional, constituted as they are against the background of the body’s situations.