Date: 1874
"The consciousness of brutes would appear to be related to the mechanism of their body simply as a collateral product of its working, and to be as completely without any power of modifying that working as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upo...
preview | full record— Huxley, Thomas H. (1825-1895)
Date: 1877
"For in their bond of mutual recognition or brain-consciousness, the sense apparatus, in all, is external to the centre storehouse or emporium of consciousness."
preview | full record— Battye, Richard Fawcett
Date: 1877
"Observing, then, that the emporium or brain itself reflects the entire product of all the senses by an impressible power, which, as by a looking-glass, exactly duplicated the external recognizers, or sense apparatus or limbs, it was inferred that that principle of duplication must be the true an...
preview | full record— Battye, Richard Fawcett
Date: 1878
"All religion, however, is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life, a reflection in which the terrestrial forces assume the form of supernatural forces."
preview | full record— Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)
Date: 1878, 1879, 1880
"Neid und Eifersucht sind die Schamtheile der menschlichen Seele [Envy and jealousy are the privy parts of the human soul]."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: 1882
"I have given a name to my pain, and call it 'a dog,'--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: 1883-1885
"The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: 1883-1885
"Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, stands a mighty commander, and unknown sage--he is called Self. He lives in your body, he is your body."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: w. before 1641, 1883
"[H]is face was the frontispice of his mind, hee knew not how to dissemble a thought."
preview | full record— Smyth, John (1567-1640)
Date: January, 1884
"I propose in this article to supplement Mr. Sully's chapter on the Illusions of Introspection, by showing what immense tracts of our inner life are habitually overlooked and falsified by our most approved psychological authorities."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)