Date: 1792
"The business of education in this case, is only to conduct the shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept upon precept, without allowing a child to acquire judgement itself, parents expect them to act in the same manner by this borrowed fallacious light, as if they had illumina...
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1817
"The wise Stagyrite speaks of no successive particles propagating motion like billiard balls (as Hobbs;) nor of nervous or animal spirits, where inanimate and irrational solids are thawed down, and distilled, or filtrated by ascension, into living and intelligent fluids, that etch and re-etch eng...
preview | full record— Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
Date: August 31, 1837
"For this self-trust, the reason is deeper than can be fathomed, — darker than can be enlightened."
preview | full record— Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Date: w. 1821, 1840
"Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the agent, as the body to the spirit, as the shadow to the substance."
preview | full record— Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
Date: January, 1884
"The attempt at introspective analysis in these cases is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see how the darkness looks."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: January, 1884
"I wish that space were here afforded to show what, in most cases of rapid thinking, the fringe or halo is with which each successive image is enveloped."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)
Date: November 11, 1967
"The answer is yes, but there is nothing wrong with having an oblique heart, it is a lighthouse, a compass, wisdom, sharp instinct, experience of death, the power to divine a disquieting but blissful lack of adjustment, because I am discovering that my own maladjustment stems from my origins."
preview | full record— Lispector, Clarice (1920-1977)
Date: 2016
"The subliminal mind is often depicted as a subterranean network that follows a bifurcating logic rarely touched by the light of day."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy
Date: 2016
"The plant's radical desire for what has decayed in the soil stands as a figure for memory, the reaching into dark recesses for what used to be alive."
preview | full record— Wampole, Christy