Quotes on Blindness

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.

It is as though the practices organizing a bustling city were characterized by [city practitioners', everyday citizens'] blindness. The neworks of these moving, intersecting writings compose a manifold story that has neither author nor spectator, shaped out of fragments of trajectories and alterations of spaces: in relation to representations, it remains daily and indefinitely other.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

What's grief but the after-blindness/of the spirit's dazzle of love?

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.