Elizabeth Gould Davis book The First Sex
The First Sex, ch. 22 - Woman in the Aquarian Age (1971).
“Every man carries within himself the eternal image of woman, not the image of this or that particular woman, but a definite feminine image. This image is fundamentally unconscious, a hereditary factor of primordial origin.”
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C.G. Jung book Psychological Types
Source: Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation (1921), Ch. 5, p. 271
Context: The great problems of life — sexuality, of course, among others — are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marvelled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.
Edward Abbey book Desert Solitaire
"The First Morning", p. 1
Desert Solitaire (1968)
Context: This is the most beautiful place on earth.
There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome — there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment.
“Time is the image of eternity.”
Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Plato, 41.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato
“Man is God's image; but a poor man is
Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.”
Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787–1859) Polish rabbi
As quoted in Leaping Souls : Rabbi Menachem Mendel And The Spirit Of Kotzk (1993) by Chaim Feinberg
Variant translation: Man must "guard himself and his uniqueness, and not imitate his fellow … for initially man was created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 72.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984