Plato Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

  Plato

  Death, Children, Men

• The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

  Plato

  Spiritual, Country, Dark

• Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light.

  Plato

  Eye, Dark, Men

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.333, Penguin

• He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

  Plato

  Love, Inspirational, Darkness

  Plato (2012). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.29, Courier Corporation

• The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body.

  Plato

  Eye, Light, Darkness

  Republic, bk.7, 518c (translated by G M A Grube, revised by C D C Reeve).

• He who love touches walks not in darkness.

  Plato

  Love, Darkness, Walks

• A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize that the same thing happens to the soul.

  Plato

  Confused, Eye, Men

• As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

  Plato

  Artist, Light, Inspire

  Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1993). “Symposium and Phaedrus”, p.21, Courier Corporation

• The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

  Plato

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

  Plato

  Darkness, Walks

  Plato (2010). “The Works of Plato: The Trial and Death of Socrates”, p.324, Cosimo, Inc.

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