Date: October 15, 1692
"[Locke] will allow no idea innate but such as a man brings coined in his mind like a shilling."
preview | full record— King, William (1650-1729)
Date: 1696
"Imagine two clocks or watches which agree perfectly ... Put now the soul and the body in place of these two clocks; their accordance may be brought about by one of these three ways."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: May 16, 1699
"All others have a right to be followed as far as I, i.e. as far as the evidence of what they say convinces; and of that my own understanding alone must be judge for me, and nothing else."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1699
"I justified my use of the word Spirit in that Sense from the Authorities of Cicero and Virgil, applying the Latin word Spiritus, from whence Spirit is derived, to the Soul as a thinking Thing, without excluding Materiality out of it. To which your Lordship replies,*That Cicero, in his Tusculan Q...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)