“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.”
Art
“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
GoodAll Quotes by William Blake
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
Friendship“The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.”
Travel“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.”
Good“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“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“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“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“Opposition is true friendship.”
Friendship“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
Forgiveness“The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”
Wisdom“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
Knowledge“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
Great“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Morning“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.”
Experience“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“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
Imagination“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“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.”
Money