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“Heres something else Id like your opinion about, I said. If he went back underground and sat down again in the same spot, wouldnt the sudden transition from the sunlight mean that his eyes would be overwhelmed by darkness ? Certainly, he replied. Now, the process of adjustment would be quite long this time, and suppose that before his eyes had settled down and while he wasnt seeing well, he had once again to compete against those same old prisoners at identifying those shadows. Would he make a fool of himself..? Wouldnt they say that hed come back from his upward journey with his eyes ruined, and that it wasnt even worth trying to go up there? And would they -- if they could -- grab hold of anyone who tried to set them free and take them up there and kill him ?” ― Plato, The Republic
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:27:41 +0000

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