Date: 1764
"But the anatomist of the mind cannot have the same advantage."
preview | full record— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)
Date: w. 1764, 1953
"My mind is like an air-pump which receives and ejects ideas with wonderful facility."
preview | full record— Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Date: 1764
"And by the way, according to the all-wise appointment of Providence, it is the same with the human mind, as it is with the earth; for education and good agriculture make the like improvements upon either."
preview | full record— Harte, Walter (1708/9-1774)
Date: 1764
"No: if you will be a true member of this church, you must give up your reason, and even the testimony of your senses too; as appears notoriously in the affair of transubstantiation."
preview | full record— Murray, James (1732-1782)
Date: 1765
"Une pierre de marbre qui a des veines plutôt que d'une pierre de marbre tout unie ou de tablettes vides, c'est-à-dire de ce qui s'appelle tabula rasa chez les philosophes."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1765
One might say "that there are truths engraved in the soul which it has never known, and even ones which it will never know"
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1765
"If all [the mind] had was the mere capacity to receive those items of knowledge--a passive power to do so, as indeterminate as the power of wax to receive shapes or of a blank page to receive words--it would not be the source of necessary truths"
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1765
"Do thou O Tablet, either both, or nothing; either let thy words and sense go together, or be thy bosom a rasa tabula."
preview | full record— Warburton, William (1698-1779)
Date: 1765
"There is the question whether the soul in itself is completely blank like a writing tablet on which nothing has as yet been written--a tabula rasa--as Aristotle and the author of the Essay maintain, and whether everything which is inscribed there comes solely from the senses and ex...
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)
Date: 1765
"Modern philosophers give them other fine names and Julius Scaliger, in particular, used to call them "seeds of eternity" and also "zopyra"--meaning living fires or flashes of light hidden inside us but made visible by stimulation of the senses, as sparks can be struck by steel."
preview | full record— Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646-1716)