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" the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly... "
The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Philosophical essays. 1855 - Page 67
by Dugald Stewart - 1855
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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

Jonathan Crary - 1992 - 190 pages
...1982), pp. 38—43. discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left ... to let in external visible resemblances, or some idea of things without; would the...
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John of the Cross and the Cognitive Value of Mysticism: An Analysis of ...

S. Payne - 1990 - 274 pages
...internal and external senses "are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without" See Locke Essay...
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Shame and the Self

Francis J. Broucek - 1991 - 190 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much...
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That They be One: The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals, 1740-1989

Michael Joseph Schuck - 1991 - 244 pages
...internal sensation" are the sole "windows by which light is let into this 'dark room.' For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...external visible resemblances, or ideas of things." John Locke, An Kssay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. Alexander Campbell Fraser, 2 vols. (New York:...
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Herder's Aesthetics and the European Enlightenment

Robert Edward Norton - 1991 - 284 pages
...the essentially specular nature of the understanding with this revealing metaphorical description: "The Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without; would the Pictures...
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Leibniz' Auffassung des menschlichen Verstandes (intellectus): eine ...

Werner Schüssler - 1992 - 280 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the Windows by which light is let into this dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...some little openings left, to let in external visible diesem Sinne kann Leibniz die Seele auch als eine ideenbildende Substanz bezeichnen. 179 Aus dem Begriff...
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Intentionalität und Konstitution: eine Einführung in Husserls Logische ...

Dan Zahavi - 1992 - 164 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without; would the pictures...
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Milton a Poem, and the Final Illuminated Works: The Ghost of Abel, On Homers ...

William Blake - 1993 - 298 pages
...se all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern', E 39, K 154) and Locke 2.11.17: 'For, methinks, t Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openin left, to let in external visible Resemblances, or Ideas of things without' (noted in Otto 53)....
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Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century

Veronica Kelly, Dorothea von Mücke - 1994 - 364 pages
...as far as I can discover, are the Windows by which light is let into this dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...of things without; would the Pictures coming into such a dark Room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much...
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Auge & Ohr: Studien zur Erforschung der Sprache am Menschen 1700-1850

Joachim Gessinger - 1994 - 824 pages
...alone, as far as I can discover, are the Windows which light is let into this dark Room. For, methinks, the Understanding is not much unlike a Closet wholly...of things without; would the Pictures coming into such a dark Room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much...
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