Quotes 11 - 28 - 17 : 1, Blake, Atkinson, Powell, Levi-Strauss
William Blake Quotes
English - Poet November 28, 1757 - August 12, 1827
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake
Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
William Blake
I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
William Blake
The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
William Blake
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
William Blake
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake
Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
William Blake
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
William Blake
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake
Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
William Blake
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
William Blake
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
William Blake
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
William Blake
If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.
William Blake
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
William Blake
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake
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!
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.
William Blake
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake
One thought fills immensity.
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.
William Blake
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot.
William Blake
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.
William Blake
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
William Blake
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
The eye altering, alters all.
William Blake
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
William Blake
He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake
Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
William Blake
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William Blake
I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
William Blake
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
William Blake
The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
William Blake
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
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.
William Blake
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.
William Blake
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
William Blake
Brooks Atkinson Quotes
American - Critic November 28, 1894 - January 14, 1984
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson
The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks Atkinson
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson
There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.
Brooks Atkinson
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Brooks Atkinson
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
Brooks Atkinson
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Brooks Atkinson
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.
Brooks Atkinson
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
Brooks Atkinson
Dawn Powell Quotes
American - Writer November 28, 1896 - November 14, 1965
Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Dawn Powell
A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
Dawn Powell
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Dawn Powell
I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.
Dawn Powell
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Dawn Powell
I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.
Dawn Powell
Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement.
Dawn Powell
A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
Dawn Powell
Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.
Dawn Powell
Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes
French - Scientist Born: November 28, 1908
The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
Claude Levi-Strauss
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.
Claude Levi-Strauss
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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