Date: 1790, 1794, 1795, 1818, 1827
"Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1792
"No, no! The agonised heart will cry with suffocating impatience--I, too, am a man! and have vices hid perhaps, from human eye, that bend me to the dust before God, and loudly tell me, when all is mute, that we are formed of the same earth, and breathe the same element."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1792
"One idea calls up another, its old associate, and memory, faithful to the first impressions, particularly when the intellectual powers are not employed to cool our sensations, retraces them with mechanical exactness."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1793
Corporal punishment closes all "wholsome avenues of mind ... and on every side we see them guarded with a train of disgraceful passions, hatred, revenge, despotism, cruelty, hypocrisy, conspiracy and cowardice."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
"Law may be supposed to have been constructed in the tranquil serenity of the soul, a suitable monitor to check the inflamed mind with which the recent memory of ills might induce us to proceed to the exercise of coercion"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1793
In sleep "Our tired attention resigns the helm, ideas swim before us in wild confusion, and are attended with less and less distinctness, till at length they leave no traces in the memory."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"I have always made it a rule to treat those voluntary visitors [that bolt into the mind of their own accord] with civility, taking care to examine, as well as I was able, if they were worth entertaining; and it is from them I have acquired almost all the knowledge that I have."
preview | full record— Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
Date: 1794
"When fibrous contractions succeed other fibrous contractions, the connection is termed 'association'; when fibrous contractions succeed sensorial motions, the connection is termed 'cassation'; when fibrous and sensorial motions reciprocally introduce each other in progressive trains or tribes, i...
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1794
"In like manner the irritative ideas suggest to us many other trains or tribes of ideas that are associated with them."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1794
"In like manner with these sensitive sensual motions, or ideas of imagination, are associated many other trains or tribes of ideas, which by some writers of metaphysics have been classed under the terms of resemblance, causation, and contiguity; and will be more fully treated of hereafter."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)