"Homunculus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... call experience. And in proportion as we really believed this view to be true, it would lead us not away from but into life, not shutting us up, as has been too much the bent of philosophy, like the homunculus of Goethe's 'Faust,' in the crystal phial of a set and rigid system, to ring our little chiming bell and flash our tiny light over the vast sea of experience, which all around us foams and floods, myriad-streaming, immense, and clearly seen, yet never felt, through ...
— The Meaning of Good--A Dialogue • G. Lowes Dickinson
... potero, explicabo; nec tamen, quasi Pythius Apollo, certa ut sint et fixa, quae dixero; sed ut Homunculus unus e multis probabiliora conjectura sequens.—CIC. ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin |
