Date: 1077
"Most appropriately, therefore, the mind can be said to be its own mirror, in which it contemplates, so to speak, the image of its highest essence which it cannot see face to face."
preview | full record— St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)
Date: 1802
"He considers man and nature as essentially adapted to each other, and the mind of man as naturally the mirror of the fairest and most interesting properties of nature."
preview | full record— Wordsworth, William (1770-1850)