The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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