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: 1851
"Indeed, it is the same with mental as with bodily food: scarcely the fifth part of what a man takes is assimilated; the remainder passes off in evaporation, respiration, and the like."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: 1871
"Tis prudent to correct mens mistakes without altering their language. This makes truth glide into their souls insensibly."
preview | full record— Berkeley, George (1685-1753)
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: 1888
"I thank whatever gods may be / For my unconquerable soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)
Date: 1888
"It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishments the scroll, / I am the master of my fate: / I am the captain of my soul."
preview | full record— Henley, William Ernest (1849-1903)