Full Idea
Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body and soul.
Gist of Idea
We must think with our entire body and soul
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1798)
Book Reference
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.43
A Reaction
Not just that thinking must be a whole-hearted activity, but that the very contents of our thinking will be better if it arises out of being a physical creature, and not just a disembodied reasoner. Maybe the bowels are not needed to analyse set theory.