#blind

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. ↗

— Rose Macaulay

#against #anesthetic #blinding #brings #conscience

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#creation #deafness #everyday #experience #familiar

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon. ↗

— John Madden

#being #blind #horse #just #load

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#crazy #himself #his #i #impulses

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#blind #face #face reality #matter #reality

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. ↗

— Don Marquis

#milton #poetry #saw #went

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity. ↗

— Karl Marx

#blind #conscious #consciousness #freedom #necessity

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#blind #boy #died #else #everybody

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. ↗

— George McGovern

#acceptance #blind #call #country #deep

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#deaf #likely #more #much #outside