
„the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.“
— Erica Jong Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942
Fonte: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
— Erica Jong Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic 1942
— Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910
Fonte: Path of Life (1909), p. 12
— Marcus Tullius Cicero Roman philosopher and statesman -106 - -43 a.C.
Attributed to Cicero in J. M. Braude's Speaker's Desk Book of Quips, Quotes, & Anecdotes (Jaico Pub. House, 1966), p. 52.
Dennis McHenry in a 2011 post at theCAMPVS.com http://thecampvs.com/2011/08/03/cicero-on-books-and-the-soul/ identified a source for the exact form of words in the essay "On the Pleasure of Reading" http://books.google.com/books?id=0YfQAAAAMAAJ&dq=cicero%20%22room%20without%20books%22%20%2B%22contemporary%20review%22&pg=PA240#v=onepage&q&f=false by Sir John Lubbock, published in The Contemporary Review, vol. 49 (1886) https://archive.org/details/contemporaryrev55unkngoog, pp. 240–51 https://archive.org/stream/contemporaryrev55unkngoog#page/n250/mode/2up, in which Lubbock wrote that "Cicero described a room without books as a body without a soul" (p. 241). The same sentence may also be found on p. 61 https://archive.org/stream/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft#page/60/mode/2up of Lubbock's collection The Pleasures of Life. Part I. 18th edition (London and New York : Macmillan and Co. 1890) https://archive.org/details/thepleasuresofli01lubbuoft, in a lecture titled "A Song of Books". McHenry suggested that Lubbock may have had in mind the words "postea vero quam Tyrannio mihi libros disposuit mens addita videtur meis aedibus" at Cicero, Ad Atticum 4.8, which are translated by E. O. Winstedt on p. 293 https://archive.org/stream/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft#page/292/mode/2up of Cicero: Letters to Atticus I (London : William Heinemann, and New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons 1912) https://archive.org/details/letterstoatticus01ciceuoft "Since Tyrannio has arranged my books, the house seems to have acquired a soul", and by Evelyn Shuckburgh on p. 234 https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012541433#page/n283/mode/2up of The Letters of Cicero. Vol. I. B. C. 68–52 (London : George Bell and Sons 1908) https://archive.org/details/cu31924012541433 "Moreover, since Tyrannio has arranged my books for me, my house seems to have had a soul added to it" (although the Latin word " mens http://athirdway.com/glossa/?s=mens", rendered "soul" by both Winstedt and Shuckburgh, is more usually translated by the English "mind"). D. R. Shackleton Bailey in Cicero's Letters to Atticus (Harmondsworth : Penguin Books 1978), p. 162, translated "And now that Tyrannio has put my books straight, my house seems to have woken to life".
Disputed
Variante: Ut conclave sine libris ita corpus sine anima" A room without books is like a body without a soul
— Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
although many engines move without being touched by any one
VIII. On Mind and Soul, and that the latter is immortal.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015
— Ram Swarup Indian historian 1920 - 1998
On Hinduism (2000)
— Paulo Coelho, livro Onze Minutos
Fonte: Eleven Minutes
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772 - 1834
"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)
— Oscar Wilde, livro A House of Pomegranates
Fonte: A House of Pomegranates
— Aurelius Augustinus early Christian theologian and philosopher 354 - 430
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 277
Contexto: As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it.
— Manuel Bandeira Brazilian writer 1886 - 1968
Se queres sentir a felicidade de amar, esquece a tua alma.
A alma é que estraga o amor.
Só em Deus ela pode encontrar satisfação.
Não noutra alma.
Só em Deus - ou fora do mundo.
As almas são incomunicáveis.
Deixa o teu corpo entender — se com outro corpo.
Porque os corpos se entendem, mas as almas não.
Arte de amar (The Art of Loving)
— Joseph Joubert French moralist and essayist 1754 - 1824
— Étienne Gilson French historian and philosopher 1884 - 1978
Methodical Realism
— Maimónides, livro The Guide for the Perplexed
Fonte: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian writer 1830 - 1916
Theorie und Praxis sind Eins wie Seele und Leib, und wie Seele und Leib liegen sie großenteils mit einander in Streit.
Fonte: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 59.
— Vanna Bonta Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014) 1958 - 2014
"Only the Soul"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
— George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950
Ellie Dunn, Act II
1910s, Heartbreak House (1919)
— Alexandre Dumas, livro O Conde de Monte Cristo
Fonte: The Count of Monte Cristo
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, livro Philosophical Investigations
Fonte: Philosophical Investigations