Date: 1911
"A friend may almost literally pour out his soul into our waiting ears, or we may almost literally read it in his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1914
"I think with all his purity Emerson had within him the turbid stream of passion and desire; for all his hard-cut granite features he knew the instincts of the weakling and the slave; and for all his sweetness, he had the tiger and the jackal in his soul."
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Date: 1958
"Consciousness is like a bottomless lake in which ideas are suspended at different depths."
preview | full record— Peirce, Charles Sanders (1839-1914)
Date: 1976
"They [Marsall McLuhan's ideas] are Turkish baths of the mind."
preview | full record— Bell, Daniel (1919-2011)
Date: 1979
" But they can be sent along the usual channels […] until at some critical point, a "mental faucet" is closed, preventing them from actually being carried out."
preview | full record— Hofstadter, Douglas (b. 1945)
Date: 1981
"When we introspect we do not perceive 'concepts' flowing through our minds as such. Stop the stream of thought when or where we will, what we catch are words, images, sensations, feelings."
preview | full record— Putnam, Hilary (b. 1926)
Date: 1983
"Hume's account of mental happenings is geographical in the broadest sense, a description of human economy and ecology, not just a record of topography and a positioning of land masses but a marking of the tidal movements and trade routes of the mind as it negotiates for ease and stability."
preview | full record— Richetti, John (b. 1938)