Allegory Quote by Socrates Download Open image “To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.” — Socrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Allegory Inspirational Said Shadow Truth Would be
However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth. — Wright Morris Copy Share Image
A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression. — Martine Franck Copy Share Image
There is no truth in photography. One can't reproduce an absolute truth. That said, I don't see [my photographs] as being any less truthful… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
... anybody who has spent time with cameras and photographs knows that images, like gravestone rubbings, are no more than impressions of the truth. — Michael Light Copy Share Image
People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth. — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
We live in such a gullible world. Anything that's written, anything that's posted, anything picture that is interpreted one way is taken as truth. — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
A photo is always a kind of lie. Truth is only present for a matter of a fraction of a second. — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture. — Allan Sekula Copy Share Image
If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth. — David Hasselhoff Copy Share Image
Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth. — William Blake Copy Share Image
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years. — Socrates Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher — Socrates Copy Share Image
“For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretense of knowing the unknown; and no… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Besides, it is a shame to let yourself grow old through neglect before seeing how you can develop the maximum beauty and strength of… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
The fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to struggle against allegory. I let the readers do the interpreting. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We… — Laurie Green Westlake Copy Share Image
“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“On this material plane, each living being is like a street lantern lamp with a dirty lampshade. The inside flame burns evenly and is… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
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