Date: 1641
"I am not that structure of limbs which is called a human body. I am not even some thin vapour which permeates the limbs - a wind, fire, air, breath, or whatever I depict in my imagination; for these are things which I have supposed to be nothing."
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Date: 1641
The mind is a craftsman, the body his tool
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Date: 1641
"If you do not accept this, then you must untie the knot which in your view must be binding us with adamantine bonds and preventing our mind from soaring above every kind of body."
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Date: 1644, 1647
"It must be realized that the human soul, while informing the entire body, nevertheless has its principal seat in the brain."
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Date: 1648
"Thus all common notions which are engraved in the mind have their origin in observation of things or in verbal instruction."
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