Caves Quote by William J. Mitchell

“Nothing exists, all is shadow and illusion”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Paradoxically, in descending into the depths of the unconscious in order to deal with the prima materia of the shadow, we are simultaneously on…

— Paul Levy

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

“In these times where it has seemed dark indeed where integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast…

— Tom Althouse

“I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.…

— René Descartes

“The imagination is not a faculty for the creation of illusion; it is the faculty by which alone man apprehends reality. The ‘illusion’ turns…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

“Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth, Dazed with the tall and echoing passages, The swift recoils, so many I almost feared I’d…

— Edwin Muir

“From shadows and symbols into the truth.”

— John Henry Newman

“Even the most artistic of imaginings can sometimes seem callow in the face of truth. That which appears may not be and that which…

— Anurag Anand

“The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being…

— Lion turtle

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes,…

— Neil Gaiman