Jono Oud N.Z
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Homage to Plato - Kurdi Nay Taqsim
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" the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes...."
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Classic quotation.
Socrates speaking to Glaucon:
'Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderment's of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of
the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees
any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter
life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will
count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he has a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below
into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.'
From Plato's Republic, book 7, 'The Parable of the Cave'.
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Socrates speaking to Phaedrus:
'And of madness there were two kinds; one produced by human infirmity, the other was a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and
convention.'
Plato, Phaedrus.
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