 | David Riddle Breed - Egypt - 1891 - 450 pages
...them from turning their heads. Above and behind them the light of a fire is blazing at a distance. They see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite side of the wall." The escape from this condition was to be found in the study of philosophy. (32)... | |
 | Plato - 1899 - 634 pages
...and stone and various materials ; and some of the passengers, as you would expect, are talking, - r and some of them are silent ? That is a strange image,...shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the tire throws on the opposite wall of the cave ? True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows... | |
 | John Henry Muirhead - Life - 1902 - 208 pages
...the way, like the screen which marionette players have before them, over which they show the puppets. That is a strange image, he said, and they are strange...shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads 1 And of the objects which are being carried in like manner they would only see the shadows? Yes, he... | |
 | Plato - Utopias - 1908 - 458 pages
...which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent. You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I...True, he said ; how could they see anything but the B shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads ? And of the objects which are being carried... | |
 | Harriet Monroe - American poetry - 1920 - 400 pages
...which marionette players have before them, over which they show the puppets . . . ." but the prisoners "see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one...the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." It is the cave of Plato's imagining, rather than the exaggerations of the cinema, that Sassoon's Picture-show... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - Public opinion - 1922 - 448 pages
...them are silent ? This is a strange image, he said, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, 1 replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the...which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the case? True, he said: how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move... | |
 | John Moffatt Mecklin - Christianity - 1926 - 280 pages
...from the past. Plato, in his immortal allegory of the cave, describes its inmates as chained so that "they see only their own shadows or the shadows of one another which the fire throws upon the opposite wall of the cave." This illustrates one of the most universal and yet least realized... | |
 | John Wheatcroft - Fiction - 1986 - 186 pages
...was too honest not to own his inability to imagine any such departing splendor for himself. THE HITCH They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another. —Plato, The Republic, Book VII ± OR THREE YEARS. ONE MONTH AND TWENTY SEVEN DAYS LOCKE'S life, not... | |
 | Patrick Reid - Religion - 1987 - 412 pages
...which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent. You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I...one another, which the fire throws on the opposite side of the cave? True, he said; how could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed... | |
 | Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine - Science - 1989 - 388 pages
...image, and these are strange people," said the musician. "Like ourselves," replied the philosopher, "they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of...the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." The mystic was not unhappy with this, as far as it went, but had something to add. "There are an infinity... | |
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