Plato Light Quotes

#1. There is something very sublime, though very fanciful, in Plato's description of the Supreme Being,
that truth is His body and light His shadow. According to this definition there is nothing so contradictory to his nature as error and falsehood.

Joseph Addison

#2. A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his senses and his reason has deserted him.

Plato

#3. Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney

#4. Master Plato once said that Lux est umbra Dei; light is the shadow of God. I say this way: Light is the god of shadow!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven ... Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

Plato

#6. We are all but borrowed energy

Perry Covington

#7. We can easily forgive a child for being afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light
~Plato~

S.S. Segran