Date: 1748, 1754
"Nature has therefore endued us with a MIDDLE FACULTY, wonderfully adapted to our MIXED State, which holds partly of Sense and partly of Reason, being strongly allied to the former, and the common Receptacle in which all the Notices that come from that quarter are treasured up, and yet greatly su...
preview | full record— Fordyce, David (bap. 1711, d. 1751)
Date: 1754
"Look in my face; and, could my heart lie bare, / The Father would be seen engraven there"
preview | full record— Jeffreys, George (1678-1755)
Date: February, 1821
"I said to myself, 'This is true eloquence: this is a man pouring out his mind on paper.'"
preview | full record— Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
Date: 1851
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. It is the same as the pupil, in learning to write, following with his pen the lines that have been pencilled by the teacher."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: 1851
"For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: November 22, 1990
"The nervous system adapts, is tailored, evolves, so that experience, will, sensibility, moral sense, and all that one would call personality or soul becomes engraved in the nervous system."
preview | full record— Sacks, Oliver (b. 1933)
Date: 2007
"One's collection comes to symbolize the contents of one's mind."
preview | full record— Updike, John (1932-2009)
Date: 2007
"Books externalize our brains, and turn our homes into thinking bodies."
preview | full record— Updike, John (1932-2009)
Date: December 10, 2017
"Writing to Wilhelm Fleiss in 1896, Freud used the word Nachträglichkeit --'retranscription'--to describe the brain's action of calling up a memory and revising it in response to fresh circumstances."
preview | full record— Krauss, Nicole (b. August 18, 1974)