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Hildegard of Bingen

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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

Eyes are the windows of the soul.


Eyes are the windows of the soul.



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Die Augen sind die Fenster der Seele.

French
Les yeux sont les fenêtres de l'âme.




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The eye, which is called the window of the soul, is the principal means by which the central sense can most completely and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of nature; and the ear is the second, which acquires dignity by hearing of the things the eye has seen.

Intelligence is the eye of the soul, not its strength. Its strength is in the heart, that is, in the passions.




Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





Philosophy is the culture of the soul.





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





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.











Quotes

Quotes for: eyes


To live without philosophizing is properly to have one's eyes closed and never attempt to open them.





It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.





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





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.





Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.





The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is.











Quotes

Hildegard of Bingen also said...


Eternity is like a wheel, which has neither beginning nor end.





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.





Inside, you've got heaven and earth.












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