Eyes--the head's chief of police. They watch and make mental notes. A blind person is like a city abandoned by the authorities. On... sad days they cry. In these carefree times they weep only from tender emotions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blin...d.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American autho...rities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of sacralizing person and community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One can write out of love or hate. Hate tells one a great deal about a person. Love makes one become the person. Love, contrary to... legend, is not half as blind, at least for writing purposes, as hate. Love can see the evil and not cease to be love. Hate cannot see the good and remain hate. The writer, writing out of hatred, will, thus, paint a far more partial picture than if he had written out of love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The goal for all blind skiers is more freedom. You don't have to see where you're going, as long as you go. In skiing, you ski wit...h your legs and not with your eyes. In life, you experience things with your mind and your body. And if you're lacking one of the five senses, you adapt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for... the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »