"It was my first meeting with a philosophy……" — William Butler Yeats
"It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his first meeting with a Hindu philosopher at Dublin)"
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,…
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Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith…
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God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously…
— Joyce Brothers
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a…
— Thomas Huxley
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There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l…
— Claude Debussy
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific…
— George Whitefield
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
— Diane Arbus
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