"Reason, sometimes, seems to me to be the faculty our soul possesses of understanding nothing about our body!"
— Reason

January 1, 1970

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Paul Valéry, Dance and the Soul (1921), in Dialogues (Bollingen Series XLV 4/ Princeton University Press, 1989), translated by William McCausland Stewart, p. 46. The speaker is Eryximachus, a physician.