Sentence examples similar to a shadow of truth from inspiring English sources

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Plato said everything in the real world is just a shadow of the truth, that there is a kind of ur table – or ur Clegg – out there in some realm that we can't access".

Shaftesbury's Neoplatonism, his contention that what man sees of beauty or truth is only a shadow of absolute beauty or truth, dominated his attitude to religion and to the arts.

It's amazing to me—I mean, if you were to meet a termite to state that his or her goal in life was the perfect modeling of the cosmos, you would think it was quite a comic undertaking, and yet how different are we that we should presume to more than a shadow of a shadow of the truth.

And the shadow of truth that had come was lost in the euphoria".

Such a statement can create harmful stereotypes; there should be not a shadow of a doubt regarding the historical truth about Auschwitz.

People of faith — Muslim or any other religious faith who will be a victim of hate crimes; people of also, of all walks of life, of backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, now this casts a shadow of whether they're telling the truth, and he did this all in the name of self-promotion.

No bitterness in the voice, just a shadow of sadness exposed along with the naked truth; a fleeting glimpse of dues paid and years lost.

But, in truth, United still appeared a shadow of the side they were under their old boss and Stoke could have been out of sight by half-time.

In A Farewell to Truth, the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo writes, "...when the word 'truth' is uttered, a shadow of violence is cast as well". Moral values are not absolute, nor can they be absolute.

A shadow of a shadow.

It is a shadow of itself.

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