“If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
— William Blake Primary source“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
— William Blake Primary sourceTo see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
“It is easier to forgive an Enemy than to forgive a Friend.”
— William Blake Primary source“A Truth thats told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.”
“I must Create a System, or be enslav’d by another Mans
I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create”
I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England’s green and pleasant land.
“A dog starv’d at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”
“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair”
“Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
— William Blake Primary source“Half Friendship is the bitterest Enmity”
— William Blake Primary source“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
— William Blake Primary source“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
— William Blake Primary source“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
— William Blake Primary source“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
— William Blake Primary sourceRalph Waldo Emerson Ernest Hemingway Henry David Thoreau George Orwell Jack London