Caves Quote by Huston Smith

“In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze…

— Chris Hedges

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects,…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.…

— MJ DeMarco

... 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

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either…

— Platone

“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

“Is it possible to make a living by simply watching light? Monet did. Vermeer did. I believe Vincent did too. They painted light in…

— Terry Tempest Williams

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

“I must go beyond the dark world of sense information to the clear brilliance of the sunlight of the outside world. Once done, it…

— Plato

“Night-time, regarded as a separate sphere of creation, is a universe in itself. The material nature of man, upon which philosophers tell us that…

— Victor Hugo

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.

— Walt Disney

Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.

— Ramana Maharshi