Date: 1641
The "I" is not present in the body as a sailor is in a ship but is joined and intermingled with it
preview | full record— Descartes, René (1596-1650)
Date: 1641
"You may say that you occupy the citadel in your brain and there receive whatever messages are transmitted by the animal spirits which move through the nerves, and sense-perception thus occurs there, where you dwell, despite the fact that it is said to occur throughout the body."
preview | full record— Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)
Date: 1642
"The heart of man is the place the Devils dwell in: I feel sometimes a Hell within my self; Lucifer keeps his Court in my breast, Legion is revived in me."
preview | full record— Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-1682)
Date: 1651
"The agent is a doctor or teacher, the passive a scholar; and his office is to keep and further judge of such things as are committed to his charge; as a bare and rased table at first, capable of all forms and notions."
preview | full record— Burton, Robert (1577-1640)
Date: 1651, 1668
"For the thoughts are to the desires, as scouts, and spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things desired."
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1651, 1668
"As there have been doctors, that hold there be three souls in a man; so there be also that think there may be more souls, (that is, more sovereigns,) than one, in a commonwealth; and set up a supremacy against the sovereignty; canons against laws; and a ghostly authority against the civil; worki...
preview | full record— Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679)
Date: 1652
"So that Reason is the Pen by which Nature writes this Law of her own composing; This Law 'tis publisht by Authority from heaven, and Reason is the Printer: This eye of the soul 'tis to spy out all dangers and all advantages, all conveniences and disconveniences in reference to such a being, and ...
preview | full record— Culverwell, Nathanael (bap. 1619, d. 1651)
Date: 1654
"Conscience must be the Clarke of the Market; and tell us that we must so sell, as we could be willing to buy."
preview | full record— Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)
Date: 1655
"Therefore it belongs to the will as to the Generall of an Army to moove the other powers of the soul to their acts, and among the rest the understanding also, by applying it and reducing its power into act."
preview | full record— Bramhall, John (1594-1663)
Date: 1655
"So the will is the Lady and Mistris of human actions, the understanding is her trusty counseller, which gives no advise, but when it is required by the will."
preview | full record— Bramhall, John (1594-1663)