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"Of Experience"
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Date: 1588
"Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest and keeps incessantly whirling arounnd building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it."
preview | full record— Montaigne, Michel Eyquem seigneur de (1533-1592)
Date: September 30, 1769?
"To nature and the passions dead, / A brothel is his house and bed; / To fan the flame of warm desire, / And after wanton in the fire, / He thinks a labour; and his parts / Were not designed to conquer hearts."
preview | full record— Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770)
Date: 1789, 1794
"In every cry of every Man / In every Infants cry of fear / In every voice; in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1793
"It is here that the mind holds its empire, though it is impossible to demonstrate how this is effected, and beyond this point its power ceases."
preview | full record— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)
Date: 1793
"The empire of the mind is extended by experience and practice."
preview | full record— Valli, Eusebius (1762-1815)
Date: 1794
A fiend may set "reason up for judge / Of our most holy Mystery"
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
" The Human Face, a Furnace seal'd / The Human Heart, its hungry Gorge."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1794
"In every voice: in every ban, / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear."
preview | full record— Blake, William (1757-1827)
Date: 1901-2, 1902
"It is as if a bar of iron, without touch or sight, with no representative faculty whatever, might nevertheless be strongly endowed with an inner capacity for magnetic feeling; and as if, through the various arousals of its magnetism by magnets coming and going in its neighborhood, it might be co...
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: 1901-2, 1902
"This absolute determinability of our mind by abstractions is one of the cardinal facts in our human constitution. Polarizing and magnetizing us as they do, we turn towards them and from them, we seek them, hold them, hate them, bless them, just as if they were so many concrete beings."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
