#blind

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#concepts #content #empty #intuitions #thoughts

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#before #blind #deaf #decide #explain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. ↗

— Mark Twain

#deaf #hear #kindness #language #see

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client. ↗

— John Updike

#advocate #blind #client #president #sir

I say it instead. "You told so," I admit. "You told me my image of Brody wasn't real, and you were right. I was just too blind to see it." He laughs a little. "You were to blind to see a lot of things Princess." It's reassuring when he calls me Princess-as opposed to princess or, worse, Lily. One seems too mocking, the other too intimate. His ironic nickname feels safe. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#love #princess #forgiveness

Hatred is blind, as well as love. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#hatred #love #well

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#essay #art

Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well… Light is an element that we carry inside us and which can grow there with as much abundance, variety, and intensity as it can outside of us…I could light myself…that is, I could create a light inside of me so alive, so large, and so near that my eyes, my physical eyes, or what remained of them, vibrated, almost to the point of hurting… God is there under a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive. ↗

— Jacques Lusseyran

#life-lessons #light #spirituality #life

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#america #anyone #asian #boss #certain

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal! ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#eye #i #only #really #right