Date: December 20, 1692; 1708
"As for his General Theory of them, I esteem it, as all others of this kind, a sort of mere waking Dream, that Men are strangely apt to fall into, when they think long of a Subject, beginning quite at the wrong End; for by framing such Conceits in their Fancies, they vainly think to give their Un...
preview | full record— Molyneux, William (1656-1698)
Date: January 20, 1692/3; 1708
"But I perfectly agree with you concerning general Theories, that they are for the most part but a sort of waking Dreams, with which, when Men have warm'd their own Heads, they pass into unquestionable Truths, and then the ignorant World must be set right by them."
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: January 25, 1698/9; 1708
"But the Truth is, my Thoughts never look towards Dublin now, without casting such a Cloud upon my Mind, and laying such a Load of fresh Sorrow on me for the Loss of my dear Friend, your Brother, that I cannot without Displeasure turn them that Way; and when I do it I find my self very unfit for ...
preview | full record— Locke, John (1632-1704)
Date: 1708
"He came not to London till it was late, that he might the better keep conceal'd for some Days in his own House; which time he spent in endeavouring to calm the Tempest in his Mind."
preview | full record— Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine) (1650/51-1705)
Date: 1708
"Vanity is the predominant Passion in the [female] Sex."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1708
"Passions are too hurrying to last; Vapours that start from a Mercurial Brain, whose wild Chimera's flush the lighter Faculties, which tir'd i'th' vain pursuit of fancy'd Pleasures."
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1708
"Passion more substantial Courts our Reason, solid, persuasive, elegant, sublime, where ev'ry Sense crowds to the luscious Banquet, and ev'ry nobler Faculty's imploy'd"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1708
"That Passion you describe's a sleeping Potion, a lazy, stupid, lethargy of Mind, that nums our Faculties, destroys our Reason"
preview | full record— Baker, Thomas (b. 1680-1)
Date: 1708
"Besides, he has given an account of those several steps and degrees by which a Man is brought to this perfection; till his Soul is like a polish'd Looking-glass, in which he beholds the Truth: and then he swims in pleasure, and rejoyces exceedingly in his Mind, because of the impressions of Trut...
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)
Date: 1708
"And if any one denies what they say, they immediately tell you, that this Unbelief of yours proceeds from Learning and Logick: and that Learning is a Veil, and Logick labour of the brain, but that these things which they affirm, are discovered only inwardly then by the Light of the TRUTH."
preview | full record— Ockley, Simon (bap. 1679, d. 1720)