From William Blake: “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
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Quote of the day 12/30/24
From William Blake: “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
Quote of the day 12/29/24
From William Blake: “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
Quote of the day 12/28/24
From William Blake: “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
Quote of the day 12/27/24
From William Blake: “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
Quote of the day 12/26/24
From William Blake: “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
Quote of the day 12/23/24
From Bertrand Russell: “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”
Quote of the day 12/22/24
From Bertrand Russell: “Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”
Quote of the day 12/21/24
From Bertrand Russell: “It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.”
Quote of the day 12/20/24
From Bertrand Russell: “The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”