Quotes About Blindness

An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion. ?

Satanic blindness comes from the influence of human teachers who teach from head knowledge and not heart knowledge combined.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

The most interesting thing about characters are their blind spots. They miss the periphery.

We live in our language like blind men walking on the edge of an abyss. This language is laden with future catastrophes. The day will come when it will turn against those who speak it.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.

Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

To navigate in a world without value is to be without rudder or destination, and yet without science, we navigate blind. To many, apparently, blindness is preferable.

Further, God referred to false knowledge in His words to Job in chapters 38ff. Specifically, in verse 2, God asks Job a rhetorical question wherein He expresses bemusement at Job's spiritual shallowness. He asks who it is that darkens, or obscures, God's counsel. Then He speaks of words that are without knowledge, referring to Job and his three friends who were all blind to the facts of Job's situation.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see

Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

The more I've learned in my life, the more acutely I've felt my hunger and blindness, and at the same time the closer I've felt to the end of hunger, the end of blindness. At times I've felt myself to be clinging onto the rim—of what I can hardly say without the risk of sounding ridiculous—only to slip and find myself deeper in the hole than ever. And there, in the dark, I find again in myself a form of praise for all that continues to crush my certainty.

Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spirit—so do the people teach. And when one giveth the blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad things on the earth: so that he curseth him who healed him. He, however, who maketh the lame man run, inflicteth upon him the greatest in him — so do the people teach concerning cripples

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

To say that evil is a privation is not the same as saying that it is a mere absence or negation of good. The power of sight is found neither in a blind man nor in a rock. But it is a privation for the blind man, whereas it is a mere absence in the rock.

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

ignorant of the place it had been and blind to where it was headed.

Buscar sombra siempre es doloroso. Pero permanecer ciegos es más doloroso aún.

So I'd stabbed needles into my eyes and pretended not to see certain things. Bad things. Only by turning my back on certain thing, I ended up turning my back on my dearest friend, a betrayal I never intended. Or so I told myself. That was the problem with lying to yourself. Sometimes you got too good.