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Light Quotes by Plato
- In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we…
- And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then…
- Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet…
- A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness…
- The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
- We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?
- God is truth and light his shadow.
- Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from…
- Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of…
- As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not…
- for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself,…
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt