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Date: 1259
In our minds "the divine image shines."
preview | full record— St. Bonaventure [born Giovanni di Fidanza] (1217-1274)
Date: 1273
"For the relation of phantasms to the intellect is like the relation of colors to the sense of sight, as he says De Anima iii, 5,7. Therefore, as the species of colors are in the sight, so are the species of phantasms in the possible intellect."
preview | full record— St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)
Date: 1380-1387
"Thus gan he make a mirour of his minde, / In which he saugh al hoolly hir figure."
preview | full record— Chaucer, Geoffrey (c. 1340-1400)
