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Date: 1697

"As when you make Cogitation in us to be like Motion in Matter, which receives its Motion from external Impression"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

The soul may sleep

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

A "thoughtless, senseless, lifeless Soul" is the "Carcase of a Soul"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"What Cause can you assign able to produce the first Thought at the end of this Sleep and Silence, in a total Ecclipse and intermission of Thinking?"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"Upon your Supposition That all our Thoughts perish in sound Sleep, and all Cogitation is extinct, we seem to have a new Soul every Morning."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"If a Flame be extinct, the same cannot return, but a new one may be made."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"If a Body cease to move, and come to perfect rest, the Motion it had cannot be restor'd, but a new Motion may be produc'd."

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"If all Cogitation be extinct, all our Ideas are extinct, so far as they are Cogitations, and seated in the Soul: So we must have them new imprest; we are, as it were, new born and begin the World again"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

It is commendable for "a Man to attend to his own Thoughts and Conceptions, and the best Light he hath"

— Burnet, Thomas (c.1635-1715)

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Date: 1697

"But tho I must always acknowledg to that justly admir'd Gentleman, the great Obligation of my first Deliverance from the unintelligible way of talking of the Philosophy in use in the Schools in his time, yet I am so far from entitling his Writings to any of the Errors or Imperfections which are ...

— Locke, John (1632-1704)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.