Date: 1772
"It will remind me of what I used to be, and Pride will have to come to a standstill at the threshold of my heart."
preview | full record— Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)
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: 1780-85; in French, 36 vols. 1749-1788
"Is it difficult to perceive that our ideas originate from our senses alone; that the objects we regard as real existences, are those concerning which the senses uniformly give the same testimony."
preview | full record— Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de (1707-1788)
Date: 1788
"Those arts that ornament the mind, as geography, arithmetic, —"
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"A humane heart always rejoices to soften the distresses of its fellow creatures."
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1788
"In short, one wants but fingers, and no head for games of chance: and in my thought, such games are utterly unworthy of a thinking man."
preview | full record— Berquin, Arnaud
Date: 1802
"The brain secretes thought like the liver secretes bile."
preview | full record— Cabanis, Pierre Jean Georges (1757-1808)
Date: w. 1761-2, rev. 1773-4, 1805
"J'abandonne mon esprit à tout son libertinage. Je le laisse maître de suivre la première idée sage ou folle qui se présente, comme on voit dans l'allée de Foy nos jeunes dissolus marcher sur les pas d'une courtisane à l'air éventé, au visage riant, à l'oeil vif, au nez retroussé, quitter celle-c...
preview | full record— Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)