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Human Quotes by William Blake
- Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
- 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…
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
- Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.
- I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the…
- I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If…
- To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and…
- The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art…
- God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in…
- The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
- thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.
- For Mercy has a human heart Pity, a human face: And Love, the human form divine, And Peace, the human dress.
- A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human…
- Poetry fettered fetters the human race.
- The bird a nest the spider a web the human friendship
- Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress.
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't like to get angry. It doesn't make me feel good. It is very human, but it's also a loss of… — Steve Carell
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein