Date: 1464
"The mind, to be sure, is like an intellectual book, which sees in itself, and for all, the intention of the author."
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1464
"For Simple Being, which is visible to the mind alone, is to the mind as the being of color is to the sense of sight."
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1464
" [I]f someone were to turn his mind's sight to the possibility, or power, of oneness: he surely would see in every number and in all plurality only oneness's power"
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1464
"Therefore, my dearly beloved Peter, with keen directedness turn your mind's eye to this secret, and with this analysis enter into my writings and into whatever other writings you read, and occupy yourself especially with my books and sermons."
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1474
The soul is like a mirror in which the divine image can be seen
preview | full record— Marsiglio Ficino [Marsilius] (1433-1499)
Date: 1474
The human mind is a spark...
preview | full record— Marsiglio Ficino [Marsilius] (1433-1499)
Date: 1500?
"Take hede of thy horse, whyche ys thy body, that he be made buxome and mylde unto the soule whyche ys hys master."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1741
"But in the middle Stage of Life, or it may be from fifteen to fifty Years of Age, the Memory is generally in its happiest State, the Brain easily receives and long retains the Images and Traces which are impress'd upon on it, and the natural Spirits are more active to range these little infinite...
preview | full record— Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)
Date: 1741
"He supposed that a philosopher's brain was like a great forest, where ideas ranged like animals of several kinds; that those ideas copulated and engendered conclusions; that when those different species copulate, they bring forth monsters and absurdities; that the major is the male, the minor th...
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Arbuthnot, John (bap. 1677, d. 1735)
Date: 1748
"And he labours hard to prove that these Ideas are not innate, but would have our Souls like a Blank Paper, a Rasa Tabula, ready to receive Ideas, but void of all; And affirms that these Ideas are the Foundation of all our Knowledge; and that they are conveyed to the Mind by external Objects."
preview | full record— Anonymous [A Gentleman Late of the Temple, George Osborn]