Crystal Cave Property

Famous quotes containing the words crystal, cave and/or property:

    “But the thing that I saw in your face
    No power can disinherit:
    No bomb that ever burst
    Shatters the crystal spirit.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “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?”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)

    “It is as if being was to be observed,
    As if, among the possible purposes
    Of what one sees, the purpose that comes first,
    The surface, is the purpose to be seen,
    The property of the moon, what it evokes.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)