 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...  The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology - Page 124by Boris Sidis - 1914 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...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. The decay of sense in men waking, is not the decay of the motion... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...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. The decay of sense in men waking, is not the decay of the motion... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 pages
...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. The decay of sense in men waking, is not the decay of the motion... | |
 | John Pickett Turner - Idealism - 1910 - 148 pages
...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. The decay of sense in men waking, is not the decay of motion... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1910 - 446 pages
...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. The decay of sense in men waking is not the decay of the motion... | |
 | René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...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. The decay of sense in men waking is not the decay of the motion... | |
 | Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...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, (u) HC xxxiv and many other living creatures, as well sleeping as waking. The decay of sense in men... | |
 | Beatrice Edgell - Memory - 1924 - 186 pages
...from the image made in seeing ; and apply the same, though improperly, to all the other senses. . . . Imagination therefore is nothing but decaying sense ; and is found in men, and many other living Creatures, as well sleeping as waking. The decay of Sense in men waking, is not the decay of the motion... | |
 | Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - Criticism - 1928 - 406 pages
...the Greeks call it Fancy ; which signifies apparence, 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. This "decaying sense" is rather a poor material out of which... | |
 | James Monaco - Motion picture producers and directors - 1978 - 252 pages
...than when we see it. And this is it, the Latines call Imagination, from the image made in seeing. . . IMAGINATION therefore is nothing but decaying sense; and is found in men, and many other living Creatures, as well sleeping, as waking when we would express the decay, and signify that the Sense... | |
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