Date: 1928, 1978
"Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his m...
preview | full record— Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Date: 1960
"Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants."
preview | full record— Quine, W. V. O. (1908-2000)
Date: 1989
"Like trees similar in their gross physical profile, brains can be similar in their gross functional profiles while being highly idiosyncratic in the myriad details of their fine-grained arborization."
preview | full record— Churchland, Paul (b. 1942)