Date: January 1739
"For such is the unsteadiness and activity of thought, that the images of every thing, especially of goods and evils, are always wandering in the mind; and were it mov'd by every idle conception of this kind, it would never enjoy a moment's peace and tranquillity."
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Date: January 1739
"The vividness of the first conception diffuses itself along the relations, and is convey'd, as by so many pipes or canals, to every idea that has any communication with the primary one."
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Date: January 1739
"The attention is on the stretch; the posture of the mind is uneasy; and the spirits being diverted from their natural course, are not governed in their movements by the same laws, at least not to the same degree, as when they flow in their usual channel."
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Date: January 1739
"I have already observed, in examining the foundation of mathematics, that the imagination, when set into any train of thinking, is apt to continue even when its object fails it, and, like a galley put in motion by the oars, carries on its course without any new impulse."
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Date: January 1739
"The thought slides along the succession with equal facility, as if it consider'd only one object; and therefore confounds the succession with the identity."
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Date: 1751
"Mankind would be in a perpetual reverie; ideas would be constantly floating in the mind; and no man be able to connect his ideas with himself."
preview | full record— Home, Henry, Lord Kames (1696-1782)
Date: 1751
"A reverie is nothing else, but a wandering of the mind through its ideas, without carrying along the perception of self."
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Date: 1751
"Frightful ideas croud into the mind, and augment the fear, which is occasioned by darkness."
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