Date: 1887
"Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"It is a mistake to think that that little room [the 'brain-attic'] has elastic walls and can distend to any extent"
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: January, 1888
"The past is all of one texture--whether feigned or suffered--whether acted out in three dimensions, or only witnessed in that small theatre of the brain which we keep brightly lighted all night long, after the jets are down, and darkness and sleep reign undisturbed in the remainder of the body."
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: January, 1888
"So that the little people who manage man's internal theatre had not as yet received a very rigorous training; and played upon their stage like children who should have slipped into the house and found it empty, rather than like drilled actors performing a set piece to a huge hall of faces."
preview | full record— Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
Date: January, 1888
"For myself--what I call I, my conscious ego, the denizen of the pineal gland unless he has changed his residence since Descartes, the man with the conscience and the variable bank-account, the man with the hat and the boots, and the privilege of voting and not carrying his candidate at the gener...
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Date: 1891
"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"
preview | full record— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)
Date: 1900
"Whence comes our instinct, that behind / The flimsy furniture of sense / Inheres the undiscovered Mind / From which the world had emanence?"
preview | full record— Money-Coutts, Francis Burdett Thomas, 5th Lord Latimer (1852-1923)
Date: 1900, 1901
"We move amidst generalities and symbols, as within a tilt-yard in which our force is effectively pitted against other forces; and fascinated by action, tempted by it, for our own good, on to the field it has selected, we live in a zone midway between things and ourselves, externally to things, e...
preview | full record— Bergson, Henri-Louis (1859-1941)
Date: 1900
"Jealous for thy authority in thy mansion-house and outward family, but not in the least for thy authority within, in thy chiefest mansion, thy principal economy? Are the servants here to talk high and in what tone they please? Must theirs be the last word, their dictates the rules of action? O s...
preview | full record— Cooper, Anthony Ashley, third earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)