William Blake

Active evil is better than passive good

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. but that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. is not so in the sight of our kind God.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of ImaginationImagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.

IV _ The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V _ If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.VI _ If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.VII _ The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

When the stars threw down their spears, and watered heaven with their tears, did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Expect poison from the standing water.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.

For every thing that lives is Holy.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.