Quotes About Veil of ignorance

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed.

The union of nature and soul removes the veil of ignorance that covers our intelligence.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

He should see nothing, he should learn nothing; for him she would always wear a mask.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does any one know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. I shall even assume that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.