And he imitates the means because he wishes, on his own behalf, as part of his own initiative, to take an effective part in the game. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
It always seems curious to watch the satisfaction of some reform magazines when China or Turkey or Persia imitates the constitutional forms of Western democracies. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
If he closely imitates the narratives which he has before rendered successful, he is doomed to wonder that they please no more. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
He imitates the means of doing, not the end or thing to be done. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Thus far then we are pretty well agreed that the imitator has no knowledge worth mentioning of what he imitates. 柏拉图.理想国.
The mockers and mocked always inhabit the same region; we never find an imitator living remote from the form which it imitates. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
The painter imitates not the original bed, but the bed made by the carpenter. 柏拉图.理想国.
That there are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, a third which imitates them? 柏拉图.理想国.