Date: 1785

"Because bodies are affected only by contact and pressure, we are apt to conceive, that what is an immediate object of thought, and affects the mind, must be in contact with it, and make some impression upon it."

— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)

Date: 1785

"When we imagine any thing, the very word leads us to think that these must be some image in the mind of the thing conceived."

— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)

Date: 1785

"The contrary motives are here compared to the weights in the opposite scales of a balance; and there is not perhaps any instance that can be named of a more striking analogy between body and mind."

— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)

Date: 1785

"I say, when we consider such extravagancies of many of the most acute writers on this subject, we may be apt to think the whole to be only a dream of fanciful men, who have entangled themselves in cobwebs spun out of their own brain."

— Reid, Thomas (1710-1796)