To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images

from Plato – Book 7: The Allegory of the Cave on Rap Genius

The only reality or truth would be the shadows for they have seen nothing and have no knowledge of anything else, if somebody were to challenge this belief it is likely the prisoners would not readily believe the challenger

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