“So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.” WorldInspirationalHumansLastsPastMotherPassionRaceTeachSawsBlindHuman RaceBlindnessBrooding Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“Based on first-hand evidence of your own senses - the improved health and later ages at which acquaintances die nowadays as compared with the past; the material goods that we now possess; the speed at which information, entertainment, and we ourselves move freely throughout the world - it seems to me that a person must be literally deaf and blind not to perceive that humanity is in a much better state than ever before.” WorldFirstsPersonsStatesHandsSeemsAgePastMovingHumanityDiesInformationMaterialsEvidenceBlindEntertainmentSpeedSensesPerceiveGoodsDeafAcquaintanceDeaf And Blind Author:Julian Simon
“It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work.” ThinkingWorldWould BePastImpossibleAcceptanceDemandBlindMythologyResolveSheerTestamentNew TestamentBlind Acceptance Author:Rudolf Bultmann
“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.” StillsAgePastFoundStarsStageBlindMereSuggestionsLimitlessExpanseTwinklingTwinkling Stars Author:Novalis
“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.” KnowsMenPastBlindOneselfRefuseDenyMuteHandicapped Author:Tobsha Learner