#blind

Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#empty #history #philosophy #science #without

Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. ↗

— Imre Lakatos

#commitment #crime #intellectual #theory #virtue

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ↗

— Anais Nin

#blindness #death #dies #errors #how

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly. ↗

— Andre Norton

#beyond #blind #cat #folly #him

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#blinders #done #effort #everything #forth

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military. ↗

— James Patterson

#alex #always #amazing #around #blind

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#collaborative #deaf #effect #everything #feel

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#flag #i #least #light #raise

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death