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Date: 1776-1789

"Every mode of religion, to make a deep and lasting impression on the human mind, must exercise our obedience by enjoining practices of devotion, for which we can assign no reason; and must acquire our esteem, by inculcating moral duties analogous to the dictates of our own hearts"

— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)

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Date: 1776-1789

"Their secret gloom, the imagined residence of an invisible power, by presenting no distinct object of fear or worship, impressed the mind with a still deeper sense of religious horror; and the priests, rude and illiterate as they were, had been taught by experience the use of every artifi...

— Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794)

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Date: 1776

"Would we penetrate farther, and agitate the soul, we must exhibit only some vivid strokes, some expressive features, not decorated as for show (all ostentation being both despicable and hurtful here), but such as appear the natural exposition of those bright and deep impressions, made by the sub...

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"In respect of dignity, or the impression they make upon the mind, they must be things homogeneous."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"It is likewise witty, for, not to mention the play on words like that remarked in the former example, a trope familiar to this author, you have here a comparison of---a woman's chastity to a piece of porcelain,---her honour to a gaudy robe,---her prayers to a fantastical disguise,---her heart to...

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"Memory therefore is the only original voucher extant, of those past realities for which we had once the evidence of sense. Her ideas are, as it were, the prints that have been left by sensible impressions."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"For, with regard to the similar circumstances of different facts, as by the repetition such circumstances are more deeply imprinted, the mind acquires a habit of retaining them, omitting those circumstances peculiar to each, wherein their differences consist."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"Causation considered as an associating principle, is, in his theory, no more than the contiguous succession of two ideas, which is more deeply imprinted on the mind by its experience of a similar contiguity and succession of the impressions from which they are copied."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"My third observation is, that pain of every kind generally makes a deeper impression on the imagination than pleasure does, and is longer retained by the memory."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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Date: 1776

"Sense in this passage denotes an inward feeling, or the impression which some sentiment makes upon the mind."

— Campbell, George (1719-1796)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.