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Quotation from Metaphysics by Aristotle
“For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all”
Metaphysics, Book II (little alpha), Part 1, trans. W. D. Ross (1908)
Aristotle places the difficulty of knowing the first principles in the knower rather than the things known.
Citation: "For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all" — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book II (little alpha), Part 1, trans. W. D. Ross (1908). (id aristotle-metaphysics-q4)
