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Unus mundus (Latin for "One world") is an underlying concept of Western philosophy, theology, and alchemy, of a primordial unified reality from which everything derives.The term can be traced back to medieval Scholasticism though the notion itself dates back at least as far as Plato's allegory of the cave.
Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin is "Ars artis gratia". ars longa, vita brevis: art is long, life is short: Seneca, De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1, translating a phrase of Hippocrates that is often used out of context. The "art ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version ... Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur, a Latin phrase, means "The world wants to be deceived ...
The last words of Jesus on the cross in the Latin translation of John 19:30. contemptus mundi/saeculi: scorn for the world/times: Despising the secular world. The monk or philosopher's rejection of a mundane life and worldly values. contra bonos mores: against good morals: Offensive to the conscience and to a sense of justice. contra legem ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... which is commonly but ungrammatically shortened to Harmonices mundi. [2 ... "Johannes Kepler," in The New Grove Dictionary of ...
Central to this vision was the idea of the world soul, or anima mundi, which Bruno described as an immanent and animating force pervading the entire cosmos. He argued that the world soul is the source of all motion, life, and intelligence in the universe, linking all parts of the cosmos into a single, living entity.
Sic transit gloria mundi is a Latin phrase that means "thus passes the glory of the world". In idiomatic contexts, the phrase has been used to mean "fame is fleeting". In idiomatic contexts, the phrase has been used to mean "fame is fleeting".
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Anima mundi is a Latin phrase meaning "the soul of the world"