
24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (1945)
Source: "With Edgar Varèse in the Gobi Desert", p. 166
24 November 1747
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.”
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 15
“By the glare of false science betray’d,
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.”
The Hermit
“All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.”
Source: Lover Avenged
“we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.”
Source: Thinking, Fast and Slow
Cassandra in A Trojan Ending (London: Constable, 1937)