All things Quote by William Blake Download Open image “Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.” — William Blake ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare All things Caverns Chinks Doors of perception Infinity Inspirational Men Perception Seeing
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes” — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's a place… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
going into a cave might be like going inside one's own mind, crawling around in the pitch-black, nook-and-crannied labyrinth of the human psyche. — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after death of the… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness Which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment. — William Blake Copy Share Image
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Cruelty has a human heart, and jealousy a human face. Terror, the human form divine, And secrecy, the human dress. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
To explicate the uses of the Brain seems as difficult a task as to paint the Soul, of which it is commonly said, that… — Thomas Willis Copy Share Image
A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto. — Barbara Bretton Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image