“If it is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.”
AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)
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Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 3, In-Formation, The roots of the concept, p. 18

Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Source: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

Book Two, Part III “The Dark City”, Chapter 3 (p. 200)
The Birthgrave (1975)

“Define your terms, you will permit me again to say, or we shall never understand one another.”
Définissez les termes, vous dis-je, ou jamais nous ne nous entendrons.
"Miracles" http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/voltaire-the-works-of-voltaire-vol-vi-philosophical-dictionary-part-4 (1764)
Citas, Dictionnaire philosophique (1764)

I. On the Theoretical Understanding of Human Conduct
On Human Conduct (1975)

The essence of everything., Dortmund Germany October 1, 1978, published by the DLM in The Golden Age No 51, February 1979
1970s

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), pp. 239-240
Max Velmans (Ed.) (1996). The Science of Consciousness: Psychological, Neuropsychological and Clinical Reviews. Routledge. p. 3