“Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.”
God
“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.”
ArtAll Quotes by William Blake
“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.”
Great“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
Wisdom“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“Exuberance is beauty.”
Beauty“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Art“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Morning“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
Knowledge“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“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
Forgiveness“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
Politics“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.”
Music“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Wisdom“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
Time“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“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
Time