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Quotation from Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies by Rene Descartes
“I_ am not in my _Body_, as a _Mariner_ is in his _Ship_, but that I am most _nighly conjoyn’d_ thereto, and as it were _Blended therewith”
Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation VI, trans. William Molyneux (1680)
Against a merely pilot-like soul, the meditator argues from pain, hunger and thirst that mind and body make up one thing.
Citation: "I_ am not in my _Body_, as a _Mariner_ is in his _Ship_, but that I am most _nighly conjoyn’d_ thereto, and as it were _Blended therewith" — Rene Descartes, Six Metaphysical Meditations, with Hobbes's Objections and the Replies, Meditation VI, trans. William Molyneux (1680). (id descartes-meditations-with-objections-q10)
