Date: February, 1821
"The reliance on solid worth which it inculcates, the preference of sober truth to gaudy tinsel, hangs like a mill-stone round the neck of the imagination—-'a load to sink a navy'--impedes our progress, and blocks up every prospect in life."
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: February, 1821
"This is the only true ideal--the heavenly tints of Fancy reflected in the bubbles that float upon the spring-tide of human life."
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Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
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Date: 1888
"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1888
"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
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Date: November 22, 1990
"The nervous system adapts, is tailored, evolves, so that experience, will, sensibility, moral sense, and all that one would call personality or soul becomes engraved in the nervous system."
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Date: November 22, 1990
"I do not feel alive, except insofar as a stream of feeling -- perceiving, imagining, remembering, reflecting, revising, recategorizing runs through me."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: November 22, 1990
"One is not an immaterial soul, floating around in a machine."
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