Compare Plato. “For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates, as he declared, in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes; and therefore, if the head and body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul. That is the first thing” (“Charmides,” 157).
Thoughts (διαλογισμοὶ)
Lit., reasonings (compare Mar 9:33, Rev.), or disputings (Phi 2:14), like the captious questioning of the Pharisees about washing hands.