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 »
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is the object of touch, ...be also the object of vision, what should hinder the blind man, at first sight, from knowing it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance ...... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of c...olors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--th...at is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight ... nor with madness.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 »
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind im...pulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only man thinning out his kind sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind... swipe of the pruner and his knife busy about the tree of life . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »