Date: 1701, 1704
"As in a Looking-glass, in which he that looks does indeed immediately behold the Species in the Glass, but does also at the same time actually behold Peter or Paul whose Image it is."
preview | full record— Norris, John (1657-1712)
Date: 1701, 1704
"The application of our Thoughts to other Subjects is like looking upon the Rays of the Sun as it shines to us from a Wall, or upon the Image of it as it returns from a Watry Mirrour, but this is looking up directly against the Fons veri lucidus, the bright Source of Intellectual Light a...
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Date: 1702
"Thus a man's Face in the Glass is properly the 'Idea' of that Face; or when we seen any single Object, the little Picture or Image form'd at the bottom of the Eye may be properly call'd the 'Idea' of the thing seen; and by a Latitude in Expression the Picture of a Man or of any thing else, may b...
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Date: 1710, 1734
Bodies are "barely passive ideas in the mind", and the mind is "more distant and heterogenous from them, than light is from darkness"
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my senses; methought I saw things by a dim light, and through false glasses."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
Date: 1713, 1734
"I have been a long time distrusting my Senses; methought I saw things by a dim Light, and thro false Glasses. Now, the Glasses are removed, and a new Light breaks in upon my Understanding."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)