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Date: 537, 1533
"celas etiam ut ita dixerim, speculum mentis [mirror of mind] tuae, ubi te omnis aetas ventura possit inspicere."
preview | full record— Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus(c. 484/490 - c. 585)
Date: 1077
"Most appropriately, therefore, the mind can be said to be its own mirror, in which it contemplates, so to speak, the image of its highest essence which it cannot see face to face."
preview | full record— St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
Date: 1273
"For the relation of phantasms to the intellect is like the relation of colors to the sense of sight, as he says De Anima iii, 5,7. Therefore, as the species of colors are in the sight, so are the species of phantasms in the possible intellect."
preview | full record— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
