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“″‘And if there were a contest, and he had to compete in measuring the shadows with the prisoners who had never moved out of the den, while his sight was still weak, and before his eyes had become steady (and the time which would be needed to acquire this new habit of sight might be very considerable), would he not be ridiculous? Men would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes; and that it was better not even to think of ascending; and if any one tried to loose another and lead him up to the light, let them only catch the offender, and they would put him to death.’ ‘No question,’ he said.””
Republic • Plato“Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.”
Hard Times • Charles Dickens“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
Ceaser and Cleopatra • George Bernard Shaw“Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.”
Fragment • Epictetus“The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.”
Return to the Simple Life • Carl Gustav Jung