Date: c. 370-365 B.C.
"Let the soul be compared to a pair of winged horses and charioteer joined in natural union."
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Date: c. 370-365 B.C.
"At the beginning of this tale, I divided each soul into three parts--two having the form of horses and the third being like a charioteer; the division may remain."
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Date: 1607
"Therefore Iulian the Apostata who had flood of inuention, although that whole flood could not wash or rinch away that one spot of his atheisme, he (though not knowing him a right) could say the body was the chariot of the soule, which while it was well manag'd by discretion the cunning coachman,...
preview | full record— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Date: 1654
"[T]here are cases wherein this law must vaile to an higher, which is the law of Conscience: Woe be to that man who shall tye himselfe so close to the letter of the law, as to make shipwrack of conscience; And that bird in his bosome will tell him, that if upon what ever pretences, he shall willi...
preview | full record— Hall, Joseph (1574-1656)
Date: 1657
The fancy is a "Boundlesse, restlesse faculty, free from all engagements, diggs without spade, sails without Ships, Flies without wings, builds without charges, fights without bloodshed, in a moment striding from the Center to the circumference of the world, by a kind of omnipotency creating and ...
preview | full record— Poole, Joshua (c.1615–c.1656)
Date: August 6 and 20, 1859
"The jaded cart-horse of the commonplace bourgeois mind falters of course in confusion in front of the ditch separating substance from appearance, and cause from effect; but one should not ride carthorses if one intends to go coursing over the very rough ground of abstract reasoning."
preview | full record— Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)