Date: 1658
"The soul seems to be like a little flame or a most attenuated kind of fire, which thrives or remains kindled while the animal lives, since if it no longer thrives or is put out, the animal dies."
preview | full record— Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)
Date: 1777
"The minds of the negroes are contracted; because slavery destroys all the springs of the soul."
preview | full record— Raynal, Guillaume Thomas (1713-1796)
Date: 2005
"Many other examples can easily be found since this version of social theory has become the default position of our mental software that takes into consideration the following."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"They [the vehicles that transport individuality, subjectivity, personhood, and interiority] could be called 'subjectifiers', 'personnalizers', or 'individualisers', but I prefer the more neutral term of 'plug-ins', borrowing this marvelous metaphor from our new life on the Web."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"Every competence, deep down in the silence of your interiority, has first to come from the outside, to be slowly sunk in and deposited into some well-constructed cellar whose doors have then to be carefully sealed."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)
Date: 2005
"Interiorities are built in the same complicated way as Horus's chamber in the center of the pyramid of Cheops."
preview | full record— Latour, Bruno (b. 1947)