Date: 1386-1400
"That oon of hem was blynd and myghte not see, / But it were with thilke eyen of his mynde / With whiche men seen, after that they ben blynde."
preview | full record— Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340-1400)
Date: 1594
"Goodness is seen with the eye of the understanding. And the light of that eye, is reason."
preview | full record— Hooker, Richard (1554-1600)
Date: 1794
"Whereas a due exercise of the faculties of the mind strengthens and improves those faculties, whether of imagination or recollection; as the exercise of our limbs in dancing or fencing increases the strength and agility of the muscles thus employed."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)