Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
Ideas may be "rouzed and tumbled out of their dark Cells, into open Day-light"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Thus he who has raised himself above the Alms-Basket, and not content to live lazily on scraps of begg'd Opinions, sets his own Thoughts on work, to find and follow Truth, will (whatever he lights on) not miss the Hunter's Satisfaction"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Whenever the memory brings any idea into actual view, it is with a consciousness, that it had been there before, and was not wholly a stranger to the mind"
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Date: 1690, 1694, 1695, 1700, 1706
"Yet I suspect, I say, that this way of speaking of Faculties has misled many into a confused Notion of so many distinct Agents in us, which had their several Provinces and Authorities, and did command, obey, and perform several Actions, as so many distinct Beings; which has been no small occasio...
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Date: 1700
"When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the Voice of Reason"
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