Objects Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but…

— Jose Saramago

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave…

— Huston Smith

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our…

— William J. Mitchell

Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a…

— Bertrand Russell

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

— Aulus Gellius

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to furnish an…

— Lev Shestov

... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint what it does with shadows…

— Wallace Stegner

If you look deeply inside them you'll only see eternity; whereas with most human beings, when you look inside, you'll see all kinds of…

— Frederick Lenz

One realized all sorts of things. The value of an illusion, for instance, and that the shadow can be more important than the substance.…

— Jean Rhys

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

— Aulus Gellius