Date: c. 501 B.C.
"One would never discover the limits of soul, should one traverse every road--so deep a measure does it possess."
preview | full record— Heraklitus (fl. 504-1 BCE)
Date: 1704
"The practitioners of this famous art proceed, in general, upon the following fundamental, that the corruption of the senses is the generation of the spirit; because the senses in men are so many avenues to the fort of reason, which, in this operation, is wholly blocked up."
preview | full record— Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)