Date: 1902
"Those traits which float like foam on the surface of a man's being should be put in this category."
preview | full record— Spiller, Gustav (1864-1940)
Date: 1904
"[A]round all the nuclei of shared 'reality,' as around the Dyak's head of my late metaphor, floats the vast cloud of experiences that are wholly subjective."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1904
The empiricist universe is "like one of those dried human heads with which the Dyaks of Borneo deck their lodges. The skull forms a solid nucleus; but innumerable feathers, leaves, strings, beads, and loose appendices of every description float and dangle from it, and, save that they terminate in...
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1919
"My memories simply trooped the colour."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Date: 1919
"Every man is an inexhaustible treasury of human personality. He can go on burrowing in it for an eternity if he have the desire--and a taste for introspection."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)
Date: 1928, 1978
"Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his m...
preview | full record— Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Date: 1971, 1979
"Thinking is trying to better one's instructions; it is trying out promissory tracks which will exist, if they ever do exist, only after one has stumbled exploringly over ground where they are not."
preview | full record— Ryle, Gilbert (1900-1976)
Date: 1984
"At any given time, I'm aware that my mind and imagination are setting towards a particular compass point, that the whole edifice is preparing itself to lean in one way, like a great ramshackle barn."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: 1984
"Yes, if I'm not working, I talk over ideas to myself on the machine, by which I mean I type out little ideas, let my mind wander."
preview | full record— Ballard, J. G. (1930-2009)
Date: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)