Date: 1748, 1749
"Such is the chaos, such the rapid and continual succession of our ideas; they drive one another successively, as one wave impels another; so that it the imagination does not employ a part of its muscles, poised as it were in an equilibrium upon the strings of the brain, so as to sustain itself s...
preview | full record— Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751)
Date: 1748, 1749
"'Tis this which is the source of all our sentiments, of all our pleasures, passions, and thoughts; for the brain has its proper muscles for thinking, as well as the legs have theirs for walking."
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Date: 1759
The mind sees the truth as the eye sees light
preview | full record— Alembert, Jean le Rond d' (1717-1783)
Date: 1762
"The legislative power is the heart of the State; the executive power is its brain, which causes the movement of all the parts."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"The public force therefore needs an agent of its own to bind it together and set it to work under the direction of the general will, to serve as a means of communication between the State and the Sovereign, and to do for the collective person more or less what the union of soul and body does for...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)