Date: August 31, 1837
"But for the evidence thence afforded to the philosophical doctrine of the identity of all minds, we should suppose some preestablished harmony, some foresight of souls that were to be, and some preparation of stores for their future wants, like the fact observed in insects, who lay up food befor...
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: 1854
"Snipes and woodcocks also may afford rare sport; but I trust it would be nobler game to shoot one’s self."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"Patriotism is a maggot in their heads."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1911
"Sleep scatters you; sensations come storming along into the dreamer's mind, and he is a prey to each in turn."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1918
"Mr. Chesterton's brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1989
"When the cat hears the doorbell, this must be something going on, literally, in its head, not just in its furry little mind."
preview | full record— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)
Date: February 20, 2000
"I sometimes fancy that various archetypal situations circled tirelessly in Hitchcock's mind, like whales in a tank at the zoo."
preview | full record— Ebert, Roger (1942-2013)
Date: June 7, 2010
"They have yearnings and fears that reside in an inner beast you could call The Big Shaggy."
preview | full record— Brooks, David (b. 1961)
Date: May 21, 2011
"My thoughts turn into the cowbirds wandering among the horses’ hooves."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
Date: December 20, 2014
"Further, just as the human stomach -- unlike the termite's -- can't digest wood, so there are some things our brains just aren't capable of knowing."
preview | full record— Kaplan, Eric