“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
Knowledge
“Exuberance is beauty.”
BeautyAll Quotes by William Blake
“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.”
Truth“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.”
Life“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
Time“Opposition is true friendship.”
Friendship“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
Good“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Wisdom“What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.”
Men“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.”
Age“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.”
God“Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?”
Sad“Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.”
Travel“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.”
Art“The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
Art“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
Imagination“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“Exuberance is beauty.”
Beauty“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
Travel“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.”
Love