This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
They cure the body with mind, and the mind which has become sick, can cure nothing.
We should not move the body without the soul or the soul without the body, and thus they will be on their guard against each other, and be healthy and well-balanced.
God did not make the soul after the body… He made the soul in origin and excellence prior to and older than the body, to be the ruler and mistress, of whom the body was to be the subject.
Body | Excellence | God | Soul | Excellence |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
It is worse to be sick in the soul than in body, for those afflicted in body only suffer, but those afflicted in soul both suffer and do ill.
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.
Body | God | Light | Men | Perfection | Soul | Truth | God |
The most indisputable fact about man is that he is a union, and not a disjunction of... contrasted aspects, which are complementaries and not mutually exclusive alternatives. Man is both lower and higher, both body and spirit, both outer and inner, both mechanical and purposive.
What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so. We form no guess,, at the time of receiving a thought, of its comparative value. And education often waste its efforts in attempts to thwart and balk this natural magnetism, which is sure to select what belongs to it.
There is a great difference between the mind and the body, inasmuch as the body is by its very nature always divisible, while the mind is utterly indivisible.
This ‘I’ - that is, the soul by which I am what I am - is entirely distinct from the body, and indeed is easier to know than the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist.
Examining attentively that which I was, I saw that I could conceive that I had no body, and that there was no world nor place where I might be; but yet that I could not for all that conceive that I was not. On the contrary, I saw from the very fact that I thought of doubting the truth of other things, it very evidently and certainly followed that I was; on the other hand if I had only ceased from thinking, even if all the rest of what I had ever imagined had really existed, I should have no reason for thinking that I had existed. From that I knew that I was a substance the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence there is no need of any place, nor does it depend on any material thing; so that this ‘me,’ that is to say, the soul by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from body, and is even more easy to know than is the latter; and even if body were not, the soul would not cease to be what it is.
Body | Existence | Nature | Need | Reason | Rest | Soul | Thinking | Thought | Truth | World | Thought |
An insatiable paunch is a pernicious sink, and the fountain of all diseases, both of body and mind.
There is no better means of arriving at a knowledge of our passions than to examine the difference which exists between soul and body in order to know to which of the two we must attribute each one of the functions which are within us.
“Negative” emotions [“fear, anxiety, despair”] are much like repressed and disposed peoples in the body politic. They cease to be destructive when they are invited into full participation in the commonwealth. Repress them and there will be insurrection rather than resurrection.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Body | Despair | Emotions | Fear | Will |
The feet carry the body as affection carries the soul.
Saint Gregory, aka Pope Gregory I, St. Gregory the Dialogist, "Gregory the Great" NULL
In the great body of the world the divine murmur finds as many; veins whereby it may come at us as there are creatures over which the very divinity rules.
Saint Basil, aka Basil of Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great NULL
One ought not be furnished out more elaborately than needs requires, nor to be more solicitous for the body than is good for the soul.