Date: 1445
"Eche of þese [v inward bodili wittis: commune witt, ymaginacioun, ffantasie, estimacioun, mind] han to hem her propre chaumbres in þe brayn..as philosophris seyn."
preview | full record— Pecock, Reginald (c.1395-1460)
Date: 1460-70
"I am Mynde, þat in þe sowle ys / The veray fygure of þe Deyte."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1464
"The mind, to be sure, is like an intellectual book, which sees in itself, and for all, the intention of the author."
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1464
"For Simple Being, which is visible to the mind alone, is to the mind as the being of color is to the sense of sight."
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1464
" [I]f someone were to turn his mind's sight to the possibility, or power, of oneness: he surely would see in every number and in all plurality only oneness's power"
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1464
"Therefore, my dearly beloved Peter, with keen directedness turn your mind's eye to this secret, and with this analysis enter into my writings and into whatever other writings you read, and occupy yourself especially with my books and sermons."
preview | full record— Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464)
Date: 1474
The soul is like a mirror in which the divine image can be seen
preview | full record— Marsiglio Ficino [Marsilius] (1433-1499)
Date: 1474
The human mind is a spark...
preview | full record— Marsiglio Ficino [Marsilius] (1433-1499)
Date: 1500?
"Take hede of thy horse, whyche ys thy body, that he be made buxome and mylde unto the soule whyche ys hys master."
preview | full record— Anonymous
Date: 1942
"It has to be on that stage / And, like an insatiable actor, slowly and / With meditation, speak words that in the ear, / In the delicatest ear of the mind, repeat, / Exactly, that which it wants to hear, at the sound / Of which, an invisible audience listens, / Not to the play, but to itself, ex...
preview | full record— Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955)