Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.
William BlakeDemonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
William BlakeThe man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William BlakeI am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
William Blake