64 Quotes By William Blake


Man has no Body distinct from his Soul for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
William Blake on age

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake on art

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake on art

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake on art

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake on art

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
William Blake on beauty

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake on beauty

I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
William Blake on business

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake on courage

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Blake on death

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake on experience

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake on forgiveness

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake on forgiveness

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
William Blake on friendship

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake on friendship

That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
William Blake on god

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
William Blake on god

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
William Blake on god

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake on good

Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake on good