Thomas Mann book Confessions of Felix Krull
Madame Houpflé, Bk. 2, Ch. 9
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)
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On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
Thomas Mann book Confessions of Felix Krull
Madame Houpflé, Bk. 2, Ch. 9
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954)
Robert Musil (1880–1942) Austrian writer
Wir haben nicht zuviel Verstand und zu wenig Seele, sondern wir haben zu wenig Verstand in den Fragen der Seele.
Helpless Europe (1922)
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Context: The universal Intellect is the intimate, most real, peculiar and powerful part of the soul of the world. This is the single whole which filleth the whole, illumineth the universe and directeth nature to the production of natural things, as our intellect with the congruous production of natural kinds.
“Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.”
Tariq Ramadan (1962) Swiss muslim scholar
W.B. Yeats book The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Choice http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1602/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing
Cassandra (1860)
Context: Why have women passion, intellect, moral activity — these three — and a place in society where no one of the three can be exercised? Men say that God punishes for complaining. No, but men are angry with misery. They are irritated with women for not being happy. They take it as a personal offence. To God alone may women complain without insulting Him!
Plotinus (203–270) Neoplatonist philosopher
First Ennead, Book VI, as translated by Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation https://books.google.com/books?id=vEt0LaOue8IC (1891) pp. 43-44. <br class="br">The First Ennead (c. 250)
“Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) Russian and Soviet writer
Untimely Thoughts (1917-18) (original: Наиболее успешно и могуче будит в нашей душе ее добрые начала сила искусства. Как наука является разумом мира, так искусство — сердце его.)
Context: The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
As reported by Alexander Polyhistor, and Diogenes Laërtius in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 30, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)