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Voices In Time

1895 | Paris

Fake News

Gustave Le Bon hates crowds.More

Voices In Time

1764 | Ferney

Doors of Perception

Voltaire asks, “Do we live in a dream?”More

Voices In Time

c. 1843 | Atlantic Ocean

Inside the Whale

Herman Melville measures the skull of a whale.More

Voices In Time

1758 | Voré

Grand Illusions

Claude-Adrien Helvétius on passion blinders.More

Voices In Time

1897 | Washington, DC

Allow Me to Enlighten You

Alexander Crummell derides those who would blindfold souls.More

Voices In Time

1609 | Stratford-Upon-Avon

Mind’s Eye

William Shakespeare can’t stop thinking about you.More

Voices In Time

c. 1840 | St. Ogg’s

Styles of Learning

George Eliot watches a lesson take root (or not).More

Voices In Time

1854 | Nantucket, MA

Limitless Horizons

Maria Mitchell looks up at the skies and sees a lifetime of learning.More

Voices In Time

1891 | Turin

This Way Madness Lies

Genius certainly has no monkish humility.More

Voices In Time

c. 400 BC | Athens

When the Spirit Moves You

Socrates delivers a muse you can use.More

Voices In Time

1963 | Beijing

Leap to Mind

Mao on the importance of correct ideas.More

Voices In Time

1871 | Downe

All in the Family

Charles Darwin wants to know how you got so smart.More

Voices In Time

1860 | Paris

Hash It Out

Charles Baudelaire sees marvelous things.More

Voices In Time

c. 77 | Misenum

Art of Memory

Pliny the Elder recalls those who remembered.More

Voices In Time

1890 | London

Know Thyself

Dorian Gray sits for a portrait.More

Voices In Time

1759 | London

Remembrance of Things Past

Samuel Johnson argues for the art of forgetting.More

Voices In Time

1845 | Edinburgh

Second Life

Thomas De Quincey peels back the layers of the brain.More

Voices In Time

c. 405 | Cyrene

Wings of Icarus

Synesius writes in his dream journal.More

Voices In Time

1739 | Anjou

Me, Myself, and I

“The mind is a kind of theater.”More

Voices In Time

1859 | London

Comprehensive Care

Florence Nightingale thinks on where her patients’ minds go when they’re stuck in bed.More

Voices In Time

1649 | London

The Light and the Dark

James Howell charts a path for the imagination.More

Voices In Time

1837 | Cambridge, MA

Natural Order

Ralph Waldo Emerson plants a seed in the mind.More

Voices In Time

1653 | London

Brain Food

“Quick wit squeez’d into it.”More

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