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Confucius
Unkei, Jizo Bodhisattva


Eckhart
Sant’Anna Ponds, San Cesario, Modena


Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Correggio, Coronation of the Virgin, fragment of the apse semi-dome.


Khayyam
Luigi Marchesi, Interior of the Pharmacy of San Giovanni (Fire Room)


Blake
Blooming in London


Shakespeare
Polychrome terracotta vase, Lambert Escaler


Plato
Cloister of San Giovanni, Parma


Plato
The Seven Virtues (detail), Anton Francesco dello Scheggia


Andersen
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Procession to Calvary


Eliot
Kingdom of the Shades, photo by Valentin Baranovsky


Aesop
Terracotta vessel, Roman period, 2nd century AD, provenance: Sicily.


Hafiz
Cupid and Psyche, Canova


Plotinus
Detail of an apse fresco from Santa Maria d’Àneu. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona.


Sappho
The Annunciation, Filippo Lippi


Plato
The Lacemaker, Vermeer


Shah Waliullah
The Thinker, Auguste Rodin


Euripides
Bernini, Blessed Soul


Plato
Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg, Eros


Zoroaster
Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Soul Breaking the Links Holding It to the Earth


Rumi
Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, Oman \O


Bahauddin
Saint Matthew and the Angel, Rembrandt


Euripides
The Last Judgment, Fra Angelico


Plato
Head of Hera with Diadem


Aesop
Counting Hands of the Defeated Enemies (12th century BC, 20th dynasty, Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, Medinet Habu, Egypt)


Aristotle
Schifanoia Palace, Ferrara


Anaximander
Salalah Mosque, Oman


Seneca
The Antikythera Youth, a bronze statue from 330 BC.


Kabir
Annunciation, Filippo Lippi, detail


Pindar
Mount Cimone


Thales
Ancient artifact, Palazzo Schifanoia


Rumi
Annunciation, Convent of San Marco, Florence, Beato Angelico


Seneca
Death of Buddha, detail of sarira case


Parmenides
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, Bust of Dionysus


Milarepa
Golden Mask of Tutankhamun


Aeschylus
Hector and Andromache, De Chirico


Aurelius
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Allegory of Girolamo Casio


Thales
Mark the Evangelist, from "Codex Aureus of Lorsch"


Sappho
William Blake, The Lord Answering Job out of the Whirlwind


Burton
Battambang, Cambodia


Blake
Randolph Rogers, Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii


Whitman
Ramesses III with Horus and Seth
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