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The reunion of Soul and Body

Quotes about body and soul.

  • Adam and Eve began the mass production of the human body, but Cain and Abel began that of the soul.
  • Stanisław Jerzy Lec, (Myśli nieuczesane, 1957), translation into Italian by Riccardo Landau and Pietro Marchesani, Giunti/Bompiani, 2017. Ch. IV firstly puyblished in 1999 in Altri pensieri spettinati (translation by Pietro Marchesani), p. 233
  • Was anyone asking to see the soul? | Look at your shape, your appearance, people, substances, animals, trees, running rivers, rocks, sands. || All contain spiritual joys, which later emanate; | How can the real body die and be buried? || Of your true body, and of the true body of each man, of each woman, | each element will escape the hands of the gravediggers by transmigrating towards appropriate spheres, | carrying with him all that has enriched him, from the moment of birth to the hour of death. || The characters arranged by the printer do not convey the impression, the meaning, the main sense, | more than the substance and life of a man make him in body and soul, | indifferently, before death or after death. || Observe, the body includes and affirms the meaning, the main purpose, includes and affirms the soul; | whoever you are, how superb and divine is your body, or each part of it!
  • Walt Whitman, Foglie d'erba (Leaves of Grass), full edition with foreword by Enzo Giachino and essay by Franco Buffoni, Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Einaudi Tascabili N. 161, Torino, 1993. ISBN 88-06-17365-0. Partito da Paumanok, Ch. 13, pp. 32-33
  • He who has a well-disposed body resists heat and cold; Likewise, those whose souls are in good condition can tolerate anger, sadness, great joy and every other emotion.
  • Epictetus, Stobaeus, III, 4, 93. Quoted in Le diatribe e i frammenti, Renato Laurenti (editor), Laterza, 1960. Ch. XX, p. 326.
  • What the eye is to the body, reason is to the soul.
  • As a body everyone is individual, as a soul never.
  • Just as the spider, standing in the center of the web, as soon as a fly breaks one of its threads, it notices it and quickly runs to it as if it feels bad for the thread breaking, so the soul of man, when a part of the body is injured , quickly goes there as if it could not bear the injury to the body to which it is permanently joined and according to a specific relationship.
  • Heraclitus, Sulla natura; in Hermann Diels, Walther Kranz, I presocratici. Testimonianze e frammenti, Angelo Pasquinelli (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1976, fr. 67a
  • Just as the bark protects its trunk from cold, wind and water, so our body must protect our soul from temptation, greed and bad weather.
  • How can we not see that nature asks us for nothing else with imperious cries, other than that the body be free from pain, and that the soul enjoys a joyful feeling free from worries and fears?
  • Tito Lucrezio Caro, De rerum natura, translation into Italian by Alessandro Marchetti, Mario Saccenti (editor), Einaudi, Torino, 1975Book II, verses 16 to 19
  • How can harmony exist between body and soul if the latter is ready at any moment to save itself at the expense of the body.
  • Body and soul, or they will be two hands clasped in eternal adoration, or two wrists cuffed for eternal captivity.
  • Just as pain is a sensation necessary for the preservation of our body, suffering is necessary for the preservation of our soul. :*Lev Tolstoy, Ciclo di letture, 28 October; quoted in Tatiana Tolstoj, p. 204.
  • "Heart" indicates precisely this overall play of man's perceptive forces, in which the correct intertwining of body and soul is also at stake, which belongs to the totality of the creature called "man". The fundamental affective disposition of man also depends precisely on this unity of soul and body and on the assumption that he accepts both his being body and his being spirit; who subjects the body to the discipline of the spirit, without however isolating reason or will but, accepting himself from God, also recognizes and lives the corporeality of existence as a richness for the spirit.
  • Since our inner experiences consist of reproducing and combining sensory impressions, the concept of the soul without the body seems completely meaningless to me.
  • Albert Einstein, Il lato umano: spunti per un ritratto (The Human Side, 1979), Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann (editor), translation into Italian by Annamaria Gilberti, Einaudi, Torino, 1980.. From a letter in reply to a Viennese lady who had asked him questions about the existence of the soul and the possibility of personal and individual evolution after death, February 5, 1921; Einstein Archive 43-847; quoted in Pensieri di un uomo curioso, pp. 109-110.
  • It is better not to have the health of the body than to compromise the life of the soul.
  • – Is it true that the soul has a body?
    – What are you saying? It is the body that has a soul.
    – Too bad, I thought the opposite.
  • From the origin of life, therefore, body and soul perceive the same vital movements and share them, even when the human being is still in the maternal womb, so that their separation determines their mutual end: their unique survival, as their nature is unique. :*Tito Lucrezio Caro, Vivere laico, Paolo Marsich (editor), Oscar Mondadori, 2007, p. 43.
  • I have declared that the soul is not worth more than the body, | and I have declared that the body is no more than the soul.
  • Walt Whitman, Foglie d'erba (Leaves of Grass), full edition witjhj foreword by Enzo Giachino and with essay by Franco Buffoni, Giulio Einaudi editore s.p.a., Einaudi Tascabili N. 161, Torino, 1993. ISBN 88-06-17365-0. Ch. 48, pp. 107-108
  • I have always had this relationship for a long time... this bad relationship with my body and this terrible fear of sex and this terror of impurity that had been instilled in me since I was little. [...] I have always had close to me, in an enveloping (and also murky) way [...], priests who have always inculcated this idea of ​​chastity in me. Chastity, impurity, impurity and chastity. Continuously. These priests followed me. They also often came to my house, they were friends of my parents. They were very concerned about my spiritual life. Indeed, it seemed to me that they almost wanted to cultivate in me a chosen, particular creature like that. They wanted to take care of my soul a lot, but in taking care of my soul they made me experience my body in a schizophrenic way as if it were a shell to be forgotten.
  • Pleasure unites bodies, pain unites souls.
  • Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Blood and skin are but the bars of our confinement. But you need not fear. Flesh is destined to decay, death turns everything to ash, and in doing so frees the soul from its jailer.
  • The body is the story of the soul.
  • The body can give in to desire, without the soul participating.
  • Anatole France, Taide (Thais), translation into Italian by Francesco Chiesa and Alessandra Baldasseroni, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1973.
  • The pain of the soul is much worse than the pain of the body.
  • The features of the soul surpass those of the body in beauty.
  • Zeno of Citium, AA.VV., I frammenti degli stoici antichi, 2 voll., a cura di Nicola Festa, Laterza, Bari, 1932-1935, vol. I, 1932, p. 18.
  • The pallor shows us the extent to which the body can understand the soul.
  • The bread of the body, without that of the soul, reduces man like a beast, and concerns him only with the life that passes, while he wanders in the world to achieve immortal life. It is an immense suffering to see that men only talk about material affairs, to see them anxious to make money, and completely or almost completely forgetful of their soul!
  • Dolindo Ruotolo, I quattro Vangeli commentati dal sac. Dolindo Ruotolo, Casa Mariana Editrice, Napoli, 2005, Il Vangelo di Luca (The Gospel of Luke):
  • Tantra does not condemn the body. Tantra is a total acceptance of things for what they are. Christian theologians and those of other religions condemn the body. They create a dualism, a dichotomy, splitting you in two and saying that the body is the enemy, evil and must be fought. This duality is fundamentally wrong: it will divide your soul in two and create a split personality.
  • Osho Rajneesh, Il libro dei segreti (The book of the secrets, vol. I), traduzione di Tea Pecunia Bassani e Swami Anand Videha, Bompiani, 2008, p. 109.
  • Your body is the harp of the soul and it is up to you to make sweet music or confused sounds from it.
  • Khalil Gibran, Il Profeta, translation into Italian by Francesco Franconeri, Demetra, 1999.
  • In reality, however, our life consists only of the awareness of the spiritual being enclosed within the confines of the body.
  • Lev Tolstoy, Perché vivo? Riflessioni sullo scopo e il significato dell'esistenza, a cura degli "amici di Tolstoj", L'EPOS, Palermo, 2004. ISBN 8883022610.
  • The soul helps the body and at certain times lifts it. It is the only bird that supports its cage.
  • Victor Hugo, I miserabili, translation into Italian by E. De Mattia, Newton Compton editori, 2004, p. 464.
  • The soul of man is nourished by learning, just as the body is nourished by food.
  • The soul desires to be with his body, because, without the organic instruments of this body, it can do nothing or feel anything.
  • The soul is the body that functions; the body is dead, the soul is dead.
  • Luigi Capuana, Il marchese di Roccaverdina, Garzanti Editore, 1991.
  • The soul and the body are not two different things, but just two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology represent just two different attempts to unify our experiences through systematic thinking.
  • Albert Einstein, Aphorism written in 1937 while he was in Huntington, New York. Quoted in Il lato umano: spunti per un ritratto (The Human Side, 1979), Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann (editors), translation into Italian by Annamaria Gilberti, Einaudi, Torino, 1980, p. 36.
  • The soul came to the body and the body to life for the purpose of evolving.
  • Is the soul a shadow dwelling in the sin chest? Or is the body really in the soul as Giordano Bruno thought?
  • The soul is born old but becomes younger: this makes life a comedy. The body is born young but gets old: this makes life a tragedy.
  • Oscar Wilde, Una donna senza importanza, translation into Italian by Aldo Camerino, in Tutte le opere, 2010.
  • The harmony of soul and body... what a great thing! In our madness we separate them and have invented a realism that is vulgar and an idealism that is empty.
  • The intention of the soul is more powerful than the bondage of the body.
  • man truly becomes himself when body and soul find themselves in intimate unity; the challenge of eros can be said to be truly overcome when this unification is successful. If man aspires to be only spirit and wants to reject the flesh as a merely animalistic inheritance, then spirit and body lose their dignity. And if, on the other hand, he denies the spirit and therefore considers matter, the body, as an exclusive reality, equally loses its greatness.
  • Man can do everything for his soul, but he can do almost nothing for his body. He can be saved from everything, even hell, but he cannot be saved from being a miserable, miserable animal.
  • Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.
  • Never tell a child: you have a soul. Teach him: you are a soul, you have a body.
  • Neither the soul nor the body, taken separately, is man: what is called by this name is what is born from their union.
  • I don't care about the body - I love the soul, the shy, modest, shy soul - which hides because it is afraid, and the bold and intrusive body - sorry ma'am, did you call me?
  • No, it is not the body that is sick. It's the soul! Rather than a doctor... a confessor.
  • Alexandre Dumas, father, La signora di Monsoreau, translation into Italian by Luigi A. Garrone, Tipografia Editoriale Lucchi, Milano, 1937, p. 47.
  • It is not possible to give satisfaction to the Soul and to the body, one of the two must lose it, but lose, lose the body, for it too will one day benefit greatly.
  • There is no need to search whether the soul and the body are one, just as one does not do so for the wax and the imprint.
The Soul leaves the Body
  • Last words: O little soul, wandering, joking, | host and companion of the body, | where will you go now, | pale, cold, naked, | deprived of the usual entertainment?
  • Hadrian, Elio Sparziano, Vita di Adriano Imperatore, in Scriptores historiae Augustae;quoted in Giuseppe Fumagalli, Chi l'ha detto?, Hoepli, Milano, 1921, p. 281. Sparziano, as reported by Fumagalli, introduces the quote as follows: «And indeed, it is said that on her deathbed she wrote these verses (Et moriens quidem hos versus fecisse dicitur)»
  • Every man is a synthesis of body and soul, destined to be a spirit, that is, to live in the house; but man prefers to stay in the cellar, that is, in the determination of sensuality.
  • For one of those infernal laws that dominate existence, there is no possible agreement between the spirit and the body: one only shines on the ruins of the other.
  • The more a man lives for the soul, the better he realizes the unity of himself with all living creatures. Live for the body, and you will find yourself alone among strangers; live for the soul, and the whole world will be familiar to you.
  • Lev Tolstoy, Perché vivo? Riflessioni sullo scopo e il significato dell'esistenza, a cura degli "amici di Tolstoj", L'EPOS, Palermo, 2004. ISBN 8883022610.
  • Then, perhaps, Paola's body had succumbed to her soul. To the immortal soul, to the sentimental soul, to the beautiful soul: and behold, the joyful truth of her body had become clouded, she had become distorted; she had become an inferior good. Temptation, lies: as in the book of Genesis. Except that the temptation had been the soul: the immortal or the sentimental or the beautiful. It is the soul that lies, not the body. "Our body is the good dog that leads the blind."
  • Leonardo Sciascia, Candido, ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia, Adelphi, Milano, 1977, p. 100.
  • Know that the soul is the master of the chariot, that the body is the chariot itself, reason is the coachman and the reins are thought.
  • If a beautiful body does not have a beautiful soul, it resembles an idol rather than a human body.
  • We have been carrying around the dualism of mind and body, soul and flesh for centuries or even millennia. Even before the results of biology and neurophysiology, this dualism was however dismantled by two great protagonists of modern philosophy: the rationalist Baruch Spinoza and the empiricist David Hume. Starting from very different premises, the two converge in telling us that our Io which claims to be immortal is nothing more than a mode of nature.
  • All Bibles, sacred codes, have been the cause of the following Errors:
    1. That in man there are two real principles of existence, that is, a Body and a Soul.
  • William Blake, Il Matrimonio del Cielo e dell'Inferno, La voce del Diavolo, 2000.
  • I see that those who touched my soul were unable to awaken my body, and those who caressed my body were unable to reach my soul.
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