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" DISORDERS of intellect,' answered Imlac, ' happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate... "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of the Rambler ... - Page 367
by Nathan Drake - 1809 - 499 pages
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Flesh in the Age of Reason

Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...traditional Christian sense of human frailty, and his distrust of egoism, pride and presump182 tion: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. . . . All power...
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The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, Volume 1

William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, Michael Shepherd - 2003 - 352 pages
...with his traditional Christian sense of human frailty and distrust of egoism, pride, and presumption: 'There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate this attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be...
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What Good are the Arts?

John Carey - 2006 - 300 pages
...uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason . . . There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason . . . and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. All power of fancy over...
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Imagination und ihre Macht - Shakespeares Macbeth als eine frühe Form der ...

Oliver Kast - 2007 - 105 pages
...Englische Literaturgeschichte. Heidelberg: Quelle & Meyer, 5 1992. 367. Im Folgenden: Standop/ Mertner 17 There is no man, whose Imagination does not sometimes...ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be tbund in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the...
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A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World

Susanne Antonetta - 2007 - 260 pages
...you're an Alice with your distorted self waiting. Johnson, Brigham 's hero, goes so far as to say that "if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state" and writes movingly of the start of psychosis: "He who has nothing external that can divert him, must...
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