Date: 1909
"Thanks to his wonderful memory, everything he read was stored up for use or ornament, till his mind resembled a huge curiosity shop."
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Date: 1911
"The crystalloid minds are all that's clear, orderly, and beautiful."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"The colloid minds are sticky, glutinous, and mussy."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"Sleep scatters you; sensations come storming along into the dreamer's mind, and he is a prey to each in turn."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"You are no longer the slave of those successive atoms into which sleep divides you."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"Sensations rain in on you as in a dream, but you suppress all but what are useful for your conscious purpose."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"A friend may almost literally pour out his soul into our waiting ears, or we may almost literally read it in his eyes."
preview | full record— Lewis, Edwin Herbert (1866-1938)
Date: 1911
"I shall here have to change my metaphor a little to get the process in his mind. Suppose that instead of your curved pieces of wood you have a springy piece of steel of the same types of curvature as the wood. Now the state of tension or concentration of mind, if he is doing anything really good...
preview | full record— Hulme, T. E. (1883-1917)
Date: 1911
" I have no material clay to mould to the given shape; the only thing which one has for the purpose, and which acts as a substitute for it, a kind of mental clay, are certain metaphors modified into theories of aesthetic and rhetoric."
preview | full record— Hulme, T. E. (1883-1917)
Date: 1911
"The psychical is divided (to speak metaphorically and not metaphysically) into monads that have no windows and are in communication only through empathy."
preview | full record— Husserl, Edmund (1859-1938)