Date: January, 1833
"What they know has come by observation of themselves; they have found within them one highly delicate and sensitive specimen of human nature, on which the laws of emotion are written in large characters, such as can be read off without much study."
preview | full record— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Date: January, 1833
"[Philosophy] cuts fresh channels for thought, but does not fill up such as it finds ready-made: it traces, on the contrary, more deeply, broadly, and distinctly, those into which the current has spontaneously flowed."
preview | full record— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"Kant however places the matter somewhat in this fashion: there are things-in-themselves outside, but devoid of time and space; consciousness now comes, and it has time and space beforehand present in it as the possibility of experience, just as in order to eat it has mouth and teeth, &c., as con...
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"Knowledge itself is in fact the unity and truth of both moments; but with Kant the thinking understanding and sensuousness are both something particular, and they are only united in an external, superficial way, just as a piece of wood and a leg might be bound together by a cord."
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"The third faculty Kant finds in reason, to which he advances from the understanding after the same psychological method; that is to say, he hunts through the soul's sack to see what faculties are still to be found there; and thus by merest chance he lights on Reason."
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
Date: 1805-6, published 1833-6
"It would make no difference if there had been no Reason there, just as with physicists it is a matter of perfect indifference whether, for instance, there is such a thing as magnetism or not."
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
Date: January, 1833
"Descriptive poetry consists, no doubt, in description, but in description of things as they appear, not as they are; and it paints them, not in their bare and natural lineaments, but seen through the medium and arrayed in the colors of the imagination set in action by the feelings."
preview | full record— Mill, John Stuart (1806–1873)
Date: 1833, 1840
"The phenomena must be freed once and for all from the grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense."
preview | full record— Goethe, Johann Wolfgang (1749-1832)
Date: 1834
Fancy may judge a beloved "ever fond and true"
preview | full record— Crabbe, George (1754-1832)
Date: 1835
"And marks betray the lover's heart, / Deeply engrav'd by Cupid's dart"
preview | full record— Broome, William (1689-1745); Anacreon