Date: Date Unknown
A nose of wax is a "true symbol of the mind"
preview | full record— Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866)
Date: 1876
"What art thou, Mind, that mirror'st things unseen, / Giv'st to the dead the smiles which erst they wore, / And lift'st the veil which fate hath cast between / Thee and the forms which are not, but have been?"
preview | full record— Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)
Date: 1876
"His hands were raised on high-- / As, mirrored on his mystic mind, / Arose futurity"
preview | full record— Hogg, James (1770-1835)
Date: 1876
"'The enchantment works,' thought Merlin; 'this will do;/ I think the image on his soul is painted;' / And then the mirror suddenly withdrew"
preview | full record— Moultrie, John (1799-1874)
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: 1785, 1881
"Brehm his own Mind survey'd, / As mortal eyes (thus finite we compare / With infinite) in smoothest mirrors gaze"
preview | full record— Jones, Sir William (1746-1794)
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)