"Conceit is epilepsy and eyesight is a lying sense."
— #Heraclitus (dubious) fragment 46
"All humans by nature desire to know. An indication of this is our liking for the perceptual capacities. For even apart from their utility, these are liked because of themselves — and most of all the one because of the eyes."
— #Aristotle, (dubious) #Metaphysics, 980a21