Best empty & blind Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.”

Men Earth Fit Fame Empty Praise Blind Fruit Rewards Painful Seeking Deeds Superstitions Zeal Retribution

Author:Don DeLillo

“I'm only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness of human ambition as I can. I'd hope it's rather uplifting, actually, since I find the sort of blind optimism and empty laughter of a great deal of "contemporary culture" to be more depressing than something that admits to a potential for disappointment and a gnawing sense of existential mockery.”

Trying Humans I Can Culture Deals Honest Ambition Laughter Empty Optimism Blind Disappointment Contemporary Uplifting Depressing Existential Mockery Portrayal Blind Optimism

Author:Chris Ware

“Blind self-love, vanity, lifting aloft her empty head, and indiscretion, prodigal of secrets more transparent than glass, follow close behind.”

Self Secret Behinds Self Love Empty Blind Glasses Vanity Transparent Lifting Prodigals Empty Heads

Author:Horace

“Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.”

Empty Blind Notion Intuition

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.”

Philosophy Empty Mathematics Blind Guidance Lacking Intriguing

Book:Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

Source: Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

“But if science may be said to be blind without philosophy, it is true also that philosophy is virtually empty without science.”

Ifs May Said Philosophy Empty Blind

Author:A.J. Ayer

“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.”

Should Long Life Is Fighting Heaven Hell Waste Empty Eternity Blind Painful Foolish Horrible Vain Excitement Bubbles Worldly Too Short Numb Life Is Too Short Porch

Author:John Piper

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

Concepts Empty Philosophical Blind Intuition Critique

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”

Facts Inspiration Beautiful Spirit Feet Empty Skins Blind Shoes Noble Boots Garments Nudists

Author:Michelangelo

“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...”

Ifs World Feelings Dies Universe Forever Fate Subjects Despair Empty Machines Blind Triumph

Author:Philip Pullman

“The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.”

Ifs Soul Mountain Models Empty Blind Medicine Paint Painter Observation Impulse Encounters Bottles Shelves

Book:Adventure of painting

Source: Adventure of painting

“Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.”

People World Moving Dies Can Do Alive Magic Empty Blind Longing Bored Blank

Book:The Magicians: A Novel

Source: The Magicians: A Novel

“I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

“Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.”

Would Be Prayer Study Empty Blind

Author:Karl Barth

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.”

Thinking Science Understanding Knowledge Concepts Empty Blind Unions Intuition Senses Arise

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.”

Action Empty Blind

Author:Kwame Nkrumah

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