WISDOM: Being naked

To be naked in nature, our Natural state of being

 "If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way."

---Oscar Wilde

 "Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity---these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed."

---Mark Twain

 "What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that a human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed."

---Michelangelo

 "Sexual modesty cannot then in any simple way be identified with the use of clothing nor shamelessness with the absence of clothing and total or partial nakedness. There are circumstances in which nakedness is not immodest... Nakedness as such is not to be equated with physical shamelessness. Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person... The human body is not in itself shameful, nor for the same reasons are sensual reactions, and human sensuality in general. Shamelessness (just like shame and modesty) is a function of the interior of a person."


---Karol Cardinal Wojtyla (later to become Pope John Paul II)


 "We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."

---George Bernard Shaw


 "Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked."

---English Proverb


 "It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature. Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin. Other animals have coats that they accept, but the human race has yet to come to terms with being nude."

---Ruth Bernhard


 "How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?"

---Katherine Mansfield