William Blake Quotes And Sayings

He Whose Face Gives No Light, Shall Never Become A Star.

To The Eyes Of A Miser A Guinea Is More Beautiful Than The Sun, And A Bag Worn With The Use Of Money Has More Beautiful Proportions Than A Vine Filled With Grapes.

The Man Who Never Alters His Opinions Is Like Standing Water, And Breeds Reptiles Of The Mind.

Without Contraries Is No Progression. Attraction And Repulsion, Reason And Energy, Love And Hate, Are Necessary To Human Existence.

Want Of Money And The Distress Of A Thief Can Never Be Alleged As The Cause Of His Thieving, For Many Honest People Endure Greater Hardships With Fortitude. We Must Therefore Seek The Cause Elsewhere Than In Want Of Money, For That Is The Miser's Passion, Not The Thief S.

You Never Know What Is Enough Unless You Know What Is More Than Enough.

When A Sinister Person Means To Be Your Enemy, They Always Start By Trying To Become Your Friend.

Eternity Is In Love With The Productions Of Time.

He Who Binds To Himself A Joy Does The Winged Life Destroy; But He Who Kisses The Joy As It Flies Lives In Eternity's Sun Rise.

I Must Create A System Or Be Enslaved By Another Mans; I Will Not Reason And Compare: My Business Is To Create.

Do What You Will, This World's A Fiction And Is Made Up Of Contradiction.

Opposition Is True Friendship.

Always Be Ready To Speak Your Mind, And A Base Man Will Avoid You.

To Generalize Is To Be An Idiot.

As A Man Is, So He Sees. As The Eye Is Formed, Such Are Its Powers.

Energy Is An Eternal Delight, And He Who Desires, But Acts Not, Breeds Pestilence.

Great Things Are Done When Men And Mountains Meet.

For Everything That Lives Is Holy, Life Delights In Life.

Active Evil Is Better Than Passive Good.

The Difference Between A Bad Artist And A Good One Is: The Bad Artist Seems To Copy A Great Deal; The Good One Really Does.

If The Fool Would Persist In His Folly He Would Become Wise.

Christ's Crucifix Shall Be Made An Excuse For Executing Criminals.

Poetry Fettered, Fetters The Human Race. Nations Are Destroyed Or Flourish In Proportion As Their Poetry, Painting, And Music Are Destroyed Or Flourish.

You Cannot Have Liberty In This World Without What You Call Moral Virtue, And You Cannot Have Moral Virtue Without The Slavery Of That Half Of The Human Race Who Hate What You Call Moral Virtue.

The Fool Who Persists In His Folly Will Become Wise.

What Is The Price Of Experience? Do Men Buy It For A Song? Or Wisdom For A Dance In The Street? No, It Is Bought With The Price Of All The Man Hath, His House, His Wife, His Children.

If The Doors Of Perception Were Cleansed Everything Would Appear To Man As It Is, Infinite.

That The Jews Assumed A Right Exclusively To The Benefits Of God Will Be A Lasting Witness Against Them And The Same Will It Be Against Christians.

Man Has No Body Distinct From His Soul; For That Called Body Is A Portion Of Soul Discerned By The Five Senses, The Chief Inlets Of Soul In This Age.

He Who Would Do Good To Another Must Do It In Minute Particulars: General Good Is The Plea Of The Scoundrel, Hypocrite, And Flatterer, For Art And Science Cannot Exist But In Minutely Organized Particulars.