The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. Psychology - Page 344by Michael Maher - 1890 - 569 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Hume - 1826 - 508 pages
...single power of the soul, which remains unalterably i"i^!™)uiiyf *-he same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they...several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle iu an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| David Hume - 1874 - 604 pages
...is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| David Hume - 1874 - 604 pages
...is there any single power of the soul, which remains unalterably the same, perhaps for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| William Jackson - 1875 - 452 pages
...catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| 1893 - 578 pages
...Nature in which he affects to prove that of self we have no " real idea ". " The mind," he says, " is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pages
...that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed one another with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual...several perceptions successively make their appearance, pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite, variety of postures and situations. There is properly... | |
| Manchester Literary Club - 1880 - 772 pages
...is there any single power of the soul which remains unalterably the same, perhaps, for one moment. The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions successively make their appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly... | |
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