Quote of Hildegard of Bingen - As the sun is the light...

Biography - Hildegard of Bingen:

German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary and polymath.
Born: 1098 - Died: 1179
Period:
12th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Quote

As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.”
Hildegard of Bingen - Causae et Curae

Translation

(German, French)

Wie die Sonne das Licht des Tages ist, so ist auch die Seele das Licht des wachenden Körpers. Und wie der Mond das Licht der Nacht ist, so ist auch die Seele das Licht des schlafenden Körpers.”
Hildegard von Bingen - Causae et Curae

De même que le soleil est la lumière du jour, de même l'âme est-elle la lumière du corps éveillé; et, de même que la lune est la lumière de la nuit, de même l'âme est-elle la lumière du corps endormi.”
Hildegarde de Bingen - Causae et Curae

Quotes about soul:

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
Augustine of Hippo

Go, nothing is better for the soul
Than to dispel some sadness from a soul!”
Paul Verlaine - Ecoutez la chanson bien douce

soul

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.”
Edvard Munch

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

All about soul...

Quotes for: body:

A healthy mind in a healthy body.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Gautama Buddha

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
Aristotle

With most people the heart grows old with the body.”
Guy de Maupassant

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Quotes about light:

To love beauty is to see light.”
Victor Hugo

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice

Cinema is the form of modern writing whose ink is light.”
Jean Cocteau

Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Götz von Berlichingen

What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.”
Robert Green Ingersoll

A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light.”
Abbé Pierre

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Quotes for: night:

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.”
Gaston Bachelard

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
William Shakespeare - Romeo und Julia

night

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.”
Ernest Hemingway

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
Arthur Rimbaud

For the paths of night and day are near to each other.”
Homer - Iliad

Quotes for: sun:

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.”
Arthur Rimbaud

The sun is new each day.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.”
Victor Hugo

Education is another sun to those who are educated.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun”
Jacques Prévert

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Hildegard of Bingen also said...

Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.”
Hildegard of Bingen

eternity

Eyes are the windows of the soul.”
Hildegard of Bingen

soul

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