“What is the body? That shadow of a shadow
of your love, that somehow contains
the entire universe.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"Where are we?" in Ch. 2 : Bewilderment
Disputed, The Essential Rumi (1995)
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”
— Oscar Wilde, book A House of Pomegranates
Source: A House of Pomegranates
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Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Plotinus (203–270) Neoplatonist philosopher
First Ennead, Book VI, as translated by Thomas Taylor, The Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries: A Dissertation https://books.google.com/books?id=vEt0LaOue8IC (1891) pp. 43-44. <br class="br">The First Ennead (c. 250)
“The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why?”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Context: The body which is nearest to the light casts the largest shadow, and why? If an object placed in front of a single light is very close to it you will see that it casts a very large shadow on the opposite wall, and the farther you remove the object from the light the smaller will the image of the shadow become.
“A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), IV Perspective of Disappearance
“Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), III Six books on Light and Shade
Context: Shadow is not the absence of light, merely the obstruction of the luminous rays by an opaque body. Shadow is of the nature of darkness. Light is of the nature of a luminous body; one conceals and the other reveals. They are always associated and inseparable from all objects. But shadow is a more powerful agent than light, for it can impede and entirely deprive bodies of their light, while light can never entirely expel shadow from a body, that is from an opaque body.
“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Source: Eleven Minutes
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
Gilles Deleuze book Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Source: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation