“Order thyself so, that thy Soul may always be in good estate; whatsoever become of thy body.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
“The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth.”
Foreward (p. vii)
Brave New World Revisited (1958)
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“What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"What is an Epigram?" http://books.google.com/books?id=xUggAAAAMAAJ&q=%22What+is+an+Epigram+A+dwarfish+whole+Its+body+brevity+and+wit+its+soul%22&pg=PA253#v=onepage, The Morning Post, ( 23 September 1802 http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000175/18020923/007/0003)
“There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 18.
Porphyry (philosopher) (233–301) Neoplatonist philosopher
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Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures
Context: The soul is bound to the body by a conversion to the corporeal passions; and again liberated by becoming impassive to the body.
That which nature binds, nature also dissolves: and that which the soul binds, the soul likewise dissolves. Nature, indeed, bound the body to the soul; but the soul binds herself to the body. Nature, therefore, liberates the body from the soul; but the soul liberates herself from the body.
Hence there is a twofold death; the one, indeed, universally known, in which the body is liberated from the soul; but the other peculiar to philosophers, in which the soul is liberated from the body. Nor does the one entirely follow the other.
We do not understand similarly in all things, but in a manner adapted to the essence of each. For intellectual objects we understand intellectually; but those that pertain to soul rationally. We apprehend plants spermatically; but bodies idolically (i. e., as images); and that which is above all these, super-intellectually and super-essentially.
“The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
The Lady's Second Song http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1639/, st. 3 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XX. On Transmigration of Souls, and how Souls are said to migrate into brute beasts.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
