Simone Weil Quotes

Strange how short-sighted being invisible can make you.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

People never notice anything.

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, 'Where? What?' and turn away.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

We believe what we see.’...What do you do when you’re in the dark?

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

Light means nothing to a blind man.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

If you looked around, you'd be glad you couldn't see.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

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--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.

That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.