Date: 1825
"In this respect his mind resembled a well arranged volume; in which every subject forms a separate section, and each view of that subject a separate page."
preview | full record— Dwight, Sereno Edwards (1786-1850) and William Theodore Dwight (1795-1865)
Date: March, 1826
"And both these effects are of equal use to human life; for the mind of man is like the sea, which is neither agreeable to the beholder nor the voyager, in a calm or in a storm, but is so to both when a little agitated by gentle gales; and so the mind, when moved by soft and easy passions or affe...
preview | full record— Lamb, Charles (1775-1834)
Date: 1829
"Death is only the removal of an immortal soul from dead matter, which many have considered merely as a clog to the soul."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)
Date: 1829
"And if the man is as complete without the body, as he is without the house he resides in, the immortal soul ought to be thankful when it gets quit of the body."
preview | full record— Balfour, Walter (1776-1852)
Date: 1830
"But mind is not merely this abstractly simple being equivalent to light, which was how it was considered when the simplicity of the soul in contrast to the composite nature of the body was under discussion."
preview | full record— Hegel, G. W. F. (1770-1831)
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)
Date: 1831
"By the mind we understand that within us which feels and thinks, the seat of sensation and reason"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"We spurn at the bounds of time and space; nor would the thought be less futile that imagines to imprison the mind within the limits of the body, than the attempt of the booby clown who is said within a thick hedge to have plotted to shut in the flight of an eagle"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"The body is apprehended as no more important and of intimate connection to a man engaged in a train of reflections, than the house or apartment in which he dwells"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1831
"The mind may aptly be described under the denomination of the 'stranger at home.'"
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)