Browsing Topic Best Plato's Cave Quotes

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato’s cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don’t know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

We are finally living in Plato’s cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave – who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall – were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we’re now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don’t even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.

All of [the] activities here have a surreptitious end-of-the-world feel to them:… these joggers sleepwalking in the mist like shadow’s who have escaped from Plato’s cave

Plato’s cave is full of freaks.