Date: April 26 1870
"For is there hue or shape defin'd / In Jenny's desecrated mind, / Where all contagious currents meet, / A Lethe of the middle street?"
preview | full record— Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)
Date: 1871
"The police-tinged bourgeois mind naturally figures to itself the International Working Men's Association as acting in the manner of a secret conspiracy, its central body ordering, from time to time, explosions in different countries."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: August-November, 1871
"[B]ut the mind of Mr. Rossetti is like a glassy mere, broken only by the dive of some water-bird or the hum of winged insects, and brooded over by an atmosphere of insufferable closeness, with a light blue sky above it, sultry depths mirrored within it, and a surface so thickly sown with water-l...
preview | full record— Buchanan, Robert (1841–1901)
Date: January, 1884
"As a snowflake-crystal caught in the warm hand is no longer a crystal but a drop, so, instead of catching the feeling of relation moving to its term, we find we have caught some substantive thing, usually the last word we were pronouncing, statically taken, and with its function, tendency and pa...
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: January, 1884
"However it may be of the stream of real life, of the mental river the saying of Herakleitos is probably literally true: we never bathe twice in the same water there."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: January, 1884
"It is just this free water of consciousness that psychologists resolutely overlook."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: January, 1884
"Every definite image in the mind is steeped and dyed in the free water that flows round it."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: January, 1884
"If this "solidarity" of the stream of feelings is all that is meant by the Ego, -- if the Ego is merely a name for that fact, -- well and good, -- we seem agreed!"
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: January, 1884
"A difference of intimacy, of warmth, of continuity, similar to the difference between a sense-perception and something merely imagined -- which seems to point to a special content in each several stream of consciousness, for which Ego is perhaps the best specific name"
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1890
"A 'river' or a 'stream' is the metaphor by which" consciousness "is most naturally described" so that one may talk of "the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)