Date: 1773
"Human nature is ever liable to corruption, and has in it the seeds of every vice, as well as of every virtue; and the first will be continually shooting forth and growing up, if not carefully watched and rooted out as fast as they appear."
preview | full record— Mulso [later Chapone], Hester (1727-1801)
Date: 1830
"To grasp intelligence as this night-like mine or pit in which is stored a world of infinitely many images and representations, yet without being in consciousness, is from the one point of view the universal postulate which bids us treat the notion as concrete, in the way we treat, for example, t...
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)