240 Quotes About Blindness

It's a queer business, making oneself blind.

A lie, like a pill, is easier to swallow when you don't think about it.

the blindest people thinkthey can see the most

With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood and the salt of tears, and, as if that were not enough, we made our eyes into a kind of mirror turned inwards, with the result that they often show without reserve what we were verbally trying deny.

Deep thinking is a conspiracy against ignorance, blindness, and obliviousness. ("An egg every day?")

The perfect philosophy of the natural kind [= the perfect physics] only staves off our ignorance a little longer; just as, perhaps, the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind [= the most perfect philosophy, in the 21st century sense of the word] serves only to show us more of how ignorant we are. So both kinds of philosophy eventually lead us to a view of human blindness and weakness—a view that confronts us at every turn despite our attempts to get away from it.

I suppose that the greatest blindness is to assume the absence of blindness.

Люди пьют алкоголь, принимают наркотики, погружают себя в пучину дурмана, чтобы на время избавиться от тех тяжелых обязанностей, которые приносит свобода.— Какова же главная и тяжелейшая обязанность, налагаемая свободой? Видеть. Значит, мы пьем, чтобы на время ослепнуть.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.