Metaphor	Year	Name	Title
"Poor Cornet is a quiet creature: / One reads his mind in every feature."	MS c. 1740-1750	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."		St. Augustine (354-430)	De Vera Religione
There is a border between the outer and inner man		St. Augustine (354-430)	De trinitate [On the Trinity]
Reason is superior to sense because it judges sense		St. Augustine (354-430)	On Free Choice of the Will
The mind is irradiated by spiritual light, so that it can form the right judgment of things		St. Augustine (354-430)	De civitate Dei [The City of God]
As "the life of the flesh is the soul, so the blessed life of man is God"		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
The mind may be "vitiated and sick"	386	St. Augustine (354-430)	Soliloquies
"I was held fast not by the iron of another but by my iron will"	w. 397	St. Augustine (354-430)	Confessions
"The enemy had a grip on my will and from there made a chain for me and bound me"	w. 397	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"	w. 397	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."	w. 397	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."	w. 397	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 "		St. Augustine (354-430)	Ennarrationes 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"		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]
The "constant cud of meditation" may be chewed in the mind		Boethius (480-524/5)	Contra Eutychen
A door [in the mind?] may be opened to the mind's knocking		Boethius (480-524/5)	Contra Eutychen
"Passions are opposed to passions and one can serve as a counterweight to another"		Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)	[Title Not Known]