Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
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 blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.
You can't see all of a place until you look at it from a distance.
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it.
Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.
No man's brain is so dull, and no man's eye so blind, that they cannot catch food for dreams.
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