Date: 1868
"The strong man arm'd this moment bind, / The bold usurper of Thy throne, / His armour seize, the carnal mind, / The unbelieving heart of stone, / Out of my flesh the evil tear, / And pluck my soul out of the snare."
preview | full record— Wesley, John and Charles
Date: 1883-1885
"The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: 1922
"Fed and feeding brains about me: under glowlamps, impaled, with faintly beating feelers: and in my mind's darkness a sloth of the underworld, reluctant, shy of brightness, shifting her dragon scaly folds."
preview | full record— Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Date: 1983
Die Dogmatiker sind sonderbare Hyänen. Sie nähren sich vom Aas der Gedanken, die sie selbst getötet haben. [The dogmatists are strange hyenas They feed on the carrion of the thoughts that they themselves killed].
preview | full record— Laub, Gabriel (1928-1998)
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