Metaphor	Year	Name	Title
"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."	1740	Amherst [later Thomas], Elizabeth Frances (c.1716-1779)	Verse designed to be Sent to Mr. Adams
"The soul provides nature with the reason for the [presence or absence of] life, for even though it does not possess the same number of atoms as the body, being placed in it with its rational and non-rational elements, still it encompasses the whole body and, being bound by it, binds it in turn, just as the shortest dash of acid juice curdles a vast quantity of milk."	2nd Century CE	Diogenes of Oenoanda (2nd Century CE)	The Fragments
Reason or Ratio is a visitor who may be encountered when seeking the "real self" and one's "best good," but whether Reason is ourself or another, within us or without is not known.	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
"In the inward man dwells truth."	388-391	St. Augustine (354-430)	De Vera Religione
"Well now, let us see where we are to locate what you might call the border between the outer and the inner man."	399-426	St. Augustine (354-430)	De trinitate [On the Trinity]
"Our next subject is whether reason judges the inner sense."	387-8 or 391-5	St. Augustine (354-430)	On Free Choice of the Will
"I think so because I know that the inner sense is a kind of controller or judge of the bodily sense."	387-8 or 391-5	St. Augustine (354-430)	On Free Choice of the Will
"And this grand and wonderful instinct belongs to men alone of all animals; for, though some of them have keener eyesight than ourselves for this world's light, they cannot attain to that spiritual light with which our mind is somehow irradiated, so that we can form right judgments of all things."	413-427	St. Augustine (354-430)	De civitate Dei [The City of God]
"Wherefore, as the life of the flesh is the soul, so the blessed life of man is God, of whom the sacred writings of the Hebrews say, 'Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.'"	413-427	St. Augustine (354-430)	De civitate Dei [The City of God]
Reason lets you "see God with your mind as the sun is seen with the eye."	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
"The mind has as it were, eyes of its own, analogous to the soul's senses"	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
Reason is in minds as "the power of looking is in eyes"	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
"The eye of the mind is healthy when it is pure from every taint of the body"	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
"It is impossible to show God to a mind vitiated and sick."	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
"I was held fast not by the iron of another but by my iron will"	397-401	St. Augustine (354-430)	Confessions
"The enemy had a grip on my will and from there made a chain for me and bound me"	397-401	St. Augustine (354-430)	Confessions
"I have spilled and scattered ... my thoughts, the innermost bowels of my soul, are torn apart with the crowding tumults of variety"	397-401	St. Augustine (354-430)	Confessions
"Only a few succeed in arriving at these reasons with the eye of the mind, and when one does arrive, insofar as is possible, the very one who arrives does not abide in them, but as it were the eye (of the mind) itself is beaten back and repelled."	397-401	St. Augustine (354-430)	Confessions
"Surely thy law, O Lord, punishes thievery; yea, and this law is so written in our hearts [lex scripta in cordibus hominum], that iniquity itself cannot blot it out."	397-401	St. Augustine (354-430)	Confessions
"led by the joyfulness of that inward, and intelligible sound ... with the eye of the mind ... catching a glimpse, sudden and momentary as it was "	392-418	St. Augustine (354-430)	Enarrationes in Psalmos
"The Trinity's "own light seemed to be present around us, still, no trinity appeared to us in nature, for in the midst of that splendor we did not keep the eye of our mind fixed steadily upon searching for it ... because that ineffable light beat back our gaze, and the weakness of our mind was convinced that it could not yet adjust itself to it"	399-426	St. Augustine (354-430)	De trinitate [On the trinity]
"Is the soul and body together, as a pair of horses or a composite beast like a centaur is one thing?"	388	St. Augustine (354-430)	On Church Customs, from De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae
The soul is to the body as a scent is to the flower.		Epicurus (341-270 B.C.)	[Title Not Known]
"So I continued to ponder all the questions in my mind, not swallowing what I had heard, but rather chewing the cud of constant meditation."	Written not before 512	Boethius (480-524/5)	Contra Eutychen
"At last the door opened to my mind's knocking, and the truth which I found in my inquiry disclosed all the fogs of Eutychian error."	Written not before 512	Boethius (480-524/5)	Contra Eutychen