QUOTE A DAY - July 31, 2012

Greetings fellow quote lovers:

One of the first classic books on philosophy that I ever read was Plato's Republic. Because I believe we all live in a metaphorical cave, looking at the shadows on the wall, I wanted to share some gems from that book. Enjoy!

Best,
JA

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
And if he is compelled to look straight at the light, will he not have a pain in his eyes which will make him turn away to take and take in the objects of vision which he can see, and which he will conceive to be in reality clearer than the things which are now being shown to him?
--Book VII, Plato's Republic

At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows
--Book VII, Plato's Republic

And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: --Behold! Human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood.
--Book VII, Plato's Republic


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
When he approaches the light his eyes will be dazzled, and he will not be able to see anything at all of what are now called realities.
--Book VII, Plato's Republic

He will require to grow accustomed to the sight of the upper world. 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; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun by day?
--Book VII, Plato's Republic


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

ANSWER: Oscar Wilde

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