"An image" (in the most strict signification of the word) is the Resemblance of some thing visible […]" (Thomas Hobbes,"Leviathan", 1651)
"For after the object is removed, or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the thing seen, though more obscure than when we see it. And this is it the Latins call imagination, from the image made in seeing, and apply the same, though improperly, to all the other senses. But the Greeks call it fancy, which signifies appearance, and is as proper to one sense as to another. IMAGINATION, therefore, is nothing but decaying sense; and is found in men and many other living creatures, as well sleeping as waking." (Thomas Hobbes,"Leviathan: The Matter, Form and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil", 1651)
"Whatever we imagine is finite. Therefore, there is no idea or conception of anything we call finite. No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude; nor conceive infinite swiftness, infinite time, or infinite force, or inmate power." (Thomas Hobbes, "Of Man", 1658)
"We perceive an image of truth, and possess only a lie." (Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670)
"[...] in ordering our thoughts and images, we must always attend to those things which arc good in each thing so that in this way we are always determined to acting from an affect of joy." (Baruch Spinoza, "Ethics", 1677)
"The images of things are affections of the human body whose ideas represent external bodies as present to us. […] the affections of the human body whose ideas present external bodies as present to us, we shall call things, though they do not reproduce [external] figures of things. And when the mind regards bodies in this way, we shall say that it imagines." (Baruch Spinoza, "Ethics", 1677)
"It is also only by virtue of the continual action of God upon us that we have in our soul the ideas of all things; that is to say, since every effect expresses its cause, the essence of our soul is a certain expression, imitation or image of the divine essence, thought, and will and of all the ideas which are comprised in God." (Gottfried W Leibniz, "Discourse on Metaphysics", 1686)
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