 | David Hume - Ethics - 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...properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different, whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 468 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...pass, repass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite varicty of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre, where several perceptions...appearance ; pass, repass, glide away, and mingle iu an infinite variety of postures and situations. There is properly no simplicity in it at one time,... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1855 - 650 pages
...The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance, pass and repass, glide away and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations The comparison of the theater must not mislead us. They are the successive perceptions only that constitute... | |
 | Christianity - 1865 - 728 pages
...lying behind phenomena, either sensible or mental. " The mind is a kind of theatre," says Mr. Hume, " where several perceptions successively make their...properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1865 - 736 pages
...lying behind phenomena, either sensible or mental. " The mind is a kind of theatre," says Mr. Hume, " where several perceptions successively make their...properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and' identity. The comparison... | |
 | William Jackson - Natural theology - 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...properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison... | |
 | 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...properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different ; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. The comparison... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...contradiction in terms. There can be ' properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity at different ; it is a kind of theatre where •» several perceptions successively make their appearance.' But this comparison must not mislead us. ' They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...contradiction in terms. There can be ' properly no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity at different ; it is a kind of theatre where several perceptions successively make their appearance.' But this comparison must not mislead us. ' They are the successive perceptions only, that constitute... | |
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... -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. 
