“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), About Elegance
“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
“Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) Dutch computer scientist
1990s
“Intellect, like a woman's attraction, seduction and elegance, are innate qualities.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: L'intelletto, come l'attrazione, seduzione ed eleganza di una donna, sono qualità innate.
Source: prevale.net
“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Blüthenstaub (1798), Unsequenced
Context: The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
“For the body is only the outer periphery of the spirit, its solid part.”
Lawrence Durrell The Alexandria Quartet
Quarteto de Alexandria, ALEXANDRIA QUARTET
Se não me engano, no volume Moutolive
“For what was art, she thought, but the heart and soul made visible.”
Jane Yolen (1939) American speculative fiction and children's writer
Source: Short fiction, Dragonfield and Other Stories (1985), The Pot Child (p. 110)
Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Vol. I, Ch. 2: Of the Prophetic Language
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Context: Yet sometimes vegetables and animals are, by certain epithets or circumstances, extended to other significations; as a Tree, when called the tree of life or of knowledge; and a Beast, when called the old serpent, or worshiped. When a Beast or Man is put for a kingdom, his parts and qualities are put for the analogous parts and qualities of the kingdom; as the head of a Beast, for the great men who precede and govern; the tail for the inferior people, who follow and are governed; the heads, if more than one, for the number of capital parts, or dynasties, or dominions in the kingdom, whether collateral or successive, with respect to the civil government; the horns on any head, for the number of kingdoms in that head, with respect to military power...
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
As translated by Paul Harrison
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
Max Planck (1858–1947) German theoretical physicist
Where is science going? The Universe in the light of modern physics. (1932)