 You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the caver True, he said; how could they see...  Public Opinionby Walter Lippmann - 2004 - 427 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | 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 some of the passengers, as you would expect, are talking, - r and some of them are silent ? That is a strange image, he said, and they are strange...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Russell G. Congalton, Kass Green - Technology & Engineering - 2002 - 160 pages
...screen which marionette players have in front of them over which they show puppets ... [The prisoners] see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one...which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave .... To them ... the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images. (Plato, The Republic,... | |
 | Michael Macrone - Humanities - 1999 - 284 pages
...marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets — [They are like ourselves,] and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows...the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave." Plato, Republic, Book 7 Plato (ca. 428-348 BC) did not think this the best of all possible worlds.... | |
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