Quotes About Mimesis

#1. The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

#2. The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

Tony Hoagland

#3. On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.

Arnold J. Toynbee

#4. This is a vision of ideal reflection, ideal mimesis. God's desire for me awakens my desire for him. His relentless pursuit of me sustains my passion for him. I have found my true reflection.

Andre Rabe

#5. Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I'm going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.

Matthew Zapruder

#6. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.

Nidesh Lawtoo

#7. I never think of myself as an attacker, only as a defender - usually of rights - mine and others.

Jay Woodman

#8. If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your denstination.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Lisa C. Taylor

#10. Science is not interested in what stands to reason.

Terry Pratchett

#11. The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values ... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

Daisaku Ikeda

#12. Putting on Christ' ... is not one among many jobs a Christian has to do; and it is not a sort of special exercise for the top class. It is the whole of Christianity. Christianity offers nothing else at all.

C.S. Lewis

#13. No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

John Adams

#14. I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

Charlie Munger

#15. Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing

Jacqueline Carey