"Imago" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... diverted from the art fact, which had been so prominent with Plotinus. Thomas Aquinas followed Aristotle in distinguishing the beautiful from the good, and applied his doctrine of imitation to the beauty of the second person of the Trinity (in quantum est imago expressa Patris). With the troubadours, we may find traces of the hedonistic view of art, and the rigoristic hypothesis finds in Tertullian and in certain Fathers of the Church staunch upholders. The retrograde Savonarola occupied the same position at a later period. ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce
... caelata viri armati imago, leonem calcantis, barba bifurcata, ad caput manus benedicens, & vernacula haec verba: vos ki paseis sor mi pour lamour deix proies por mi. Clypeus erat vacuus, in quo olim laminam fuisse dicebant aeream, & eius in ea itidem caelata ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... species, speciem vix invenit illam Quam petit; offertur tandem quaesita petenti . Hanc formam Noys ipsa Deo praesentat ut ejus Formet ad exemplar animam. Tunc ille sigillum Sumit, ad ipsius formae vestigia formam Dans animae, vultum qualem deposcit Idaea Imprimit exemplo; totas usurpat imago ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... the History of a Butterfly through all its Changes and Transformations. A Description of its Structure in the Larva, Pupa, and Imago states, with an Explanation of the scientific terms used by Naturalists in reference thereto, with observations upon the Poetical and other ...
— Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children • W. Houghton
... proportional numbers of the sexes of insects was brought before the Entomological Society (79. 'Proceedings, Entomological Society,' Feb. 17, 1868.), it was generally admitted that the males of most Lepidoptera, in the adult or imago state, are caught in greater numbers than the females: but this fact was attributed by various observers to the more retiring habits of the females, and to the males emerging earlier from the cocoon. ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... ibi collo dare brachia circum: Ter frustra conprensa manus effugit imago, Par levibus ventis, volucrique simillima somno." —Virgil, AEn. vi. ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various
... The fables (sagas, dramas) of OEdipus, who slays his father and marries his mother are well known. According to the observations of psychoanalysis there is a bit of OEdipus in every one of us. [These OEdipus elements in us can—as I must observe after reading Imago, January, 1913—be called "titanic" in the narrower sense, following the lead of Lorenz. They contain the motive for the separation of the child from the parents.] The related conflicts, that in their entirety constitute the OEdipus complex (almost always unconscious, ...
— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer |
