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.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

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....

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....

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....

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....