I leave you more than 100 William Blake phrases , A painter, poet and English engraver who lived between the middle of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Although his work went unnoticed during a great part of his life, at the moment it has a high consideration, to the point of being considered by many like"The best artist that Great Britain has produced in its history".
He is considered by many as a total artist, since it encompassed his artistic disciplines as a unified spiritual effort.
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1- Think about the morning, act on the day, eat in the afternoon and sleep at night.
2 - He that receiveth graciously hath an abundant harvest.
3 - No bird flies too high if it returns with its own wings.
4- If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.
5- You will never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.
6- The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
7- It is much easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
8- A truth that is said with a bad intention, it wins all the lies that you can think of.
9- If a thing loves, that thing is infinite.
10. Souls of sweet delight can never be defiled.
11- I love fun, but fun in excess is the most disgusting thing. Joy is better than fun, and happiness is better than joy.
12- A fool does not see the same tree that a wise man sees.
13 - Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels are built with bricks of religion.
14- What has now been proved was once imagined.
15- Angels are not angels because they are more sacred than men or demons, angels are more sacred because they do not expect the holiness of anyone else, only of God.
Art can not exist without naked beauty displayed.
17- The weak in courage is the strong in wisdom.
18- The tree that provokes in someone tears of happiness, is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in its way. Some see nature as ridiculous and deformed, while others barely see nature. But in the eyes of a man of imagination, nature is the imagination itself.
19- He who desires but does not act, breeds the plague.
20- The true method for knowledge is the experiment.
21- The hours of madness are measured with the clock, but the hours of wisdom can not be measured with any clock.
22 - Those who restrict a desire do so because that desire is weak enough to be restricted.
23- The glory of Christianity is to conquer with forgiveness.
24- Man who does not change his mind is like standing water, and he rears the reptiles of the mind.
25- Imagination is not a state, imagination is human existence itself.
26 - I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's system. I will not reason and compare, my business is to create.
27- The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
28- To generalize is to be an idiot. Particularizing is the single distinction of merit. In general knowledge is the kind of knowledge that idiots possess.
29. Within the universe, there are things that are known, and there are things that are unknown. In the middle of these things there are doors.
30- Eternity is in love with the production of time.
31- A dog that dies of hunger in the door of its owner, predicts the ruin of the state.
32. A man has to and will have a religion; If he does not have the religion of Jesus, he will have the religion of Satan, and he will erect the synagogue of Satan.
33- The busy bee does not have time for sadness.
34. The travelers rest and dream under my leaves.
35. I see the past, present and future that have existed before me.
36. Any possible thing that can be believed is an image of the truth.
37. Art is the tree of life, while science is the tree of death.
38- Can I see someone's affliction, and not feel sadness? Can I see someone else's pain, and not look for a kindly relief?
39. Exuberance is beauty.
40. The man who in his mind and in his thoughts has never traveled to heaven, is not an artist.
41. Without contradictions there is no progress. Attraction and repulsion, reasoning and energy, love and hate, are necessary for the existence of the human.
42- Where mercy, love and hurt live, God is also dwelling.
43. The imagination is the real and eternal world, of which this world is but a slight shadow.
44. Great things are done when man and mountains meet.
45. In time of sowing, you must learn. In harvest time, you must teach. And in winter time you must enjoy.
46- When I tell the truth, I do not say it to seek to convince those who do not know it. I do it to defend those who know the truth.
47- We both read the Bible day and night, but where they read white I read black.
48. Those whose face gives no light, should never become a star.
49. He who does good to the other must do it in minute particles. The general good is the supplication of the scoundrel, hypocritical, and flattering. Art and science can exist only in minutely organized particles.
50- I was annoyed with my friend: express my anger, my anger ended. I was angry with my enemy, did not express my anger, and my anger grew.
51. Only one thought can fill the whole immensity.
52. Excessive pain laughs; Excessive enjoyment cries.
The foundation of an empire is art and science. Remove or destroy them and the empire will not be more. The empire follows art and not vice versa as you think the English.
54. Every prostitute was a virgin ever.
55- The alteration of the eye, alters everything.
56 - Do what you want, the world is a fiction and is made of contradiction.
57- Opposition is true friendship.
58. When a sinister person pretends to be your enemy, they always start by pretending to become your friend.
59 - As a man is, so shall he see all. Just as the eye is formed, so are its powers formed.
60- If the fool persists in his folly, then the fool will become wise.
61- The difference between a bad artist and a good artist is the following. A bad artist seems to copy a great thing, while the good artist really does.
62. The crucifixion of Christ must be an excuse for the execution of criminals.
63. You can not have freedom without what you call moral virtue, and you can not have moral virtue without the enslavement of that half of the human race that hates what you call moral virtue.
64. Active evil is better than passive goodness.
65. Man has no body besides his soul; That called body is a portion discerned by the five senses. The boss gives the soul entrance at this stage.
66. Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
67. He who is bound to joy destroys life with wings; But he who kisses joy as he flies lives in the dawn of eternity.
68- The sky is in a grain of sand.
69. Celebrate your existence!
70. The nakedness of women is the work of God.
A good local tavern has a lot in common with a church, except the tavern is much warmer, and has more conversation.
72. He who forgives more must be more forgiven.
Mercy is the golden chain by which society is tied together.
Without an opponent there is no progress.
75- When a nation becomes old, art becomes cold and commerce sits on every tree.
76. He who is weak in character is strong in cunning.
77- Exuberance is beauty
Coloring does not depend on where the colors are placed, but on where the lights and the shadows are placed, but everything depends on the shape and the outline; Where these are posts.
"He's always ready to say what your mind thinks, and a basic man will avoid you."
80. He whose face, not of light, must never become a star.
81- Uses numbers, weighs and measures in a year of scarcity.
82- Immerse yourself in a river to one who loves water.
83- If other people had not been foolish, we would
84- The only foods that are healthy are those that do not collect the net or the stump.
85- The essential thing for happiness is something to love, something to do and something to hope for.
And we were given a small space in this earth, so that we may learn to bear the bundle of love.
87. I in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
88. Love is sought not to satisfy itself, nor to carry with it any interest, if not for others to give it easily, and thus build a paradise in the despair of hell.
The research in England is not about whether a man has talent and genius; it is about whether he is passive and politically correct and a virtuous ass and obedient to the opinion of noble people about art and science. If that person is, then he is a good person. If he is not, he must die of hunger.
Truth is never to be spoken in order that it be understood, but not be believed.
The Goddess Fortune is the servant of the devil, ready to kiss anyone's butt.
"That friendship that has made my heart ache must be my enemy for the sake of friendship.
93. Nothing can be more despicable than the assumption that Public Records are true.
Trade is so far from being beneficial to art, or to empire, that it is destructive to both, as history shows, by the former reason of individual merit being its greatest hatred. The empires flourish until they become commercial, and then are disintegrated and scattered by the four winds.
95- Christianity is an art and not money. Money is his curse.
96- To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see paradise in a wild flower, hold the infinite within the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.
97- Creating a small flower is a work of centuries,
Men are accepted in paradise not because they have restrained and governed their passions, or because they have no passion, but are accepted because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasure of paradise is not the denial of passions, but the realities of the intellect, from which all passions emanate unbridled in their eternal glory.
99- Expect poison from the standing water.
100. Those who see an eagle see a portion of a genius. Lift your head!
101. In the eyes of a miser, a guinea is more beautiful than the sun itself, and a bag worn by the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine full of grapes.
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old muse courted by incapacity.
103- First kills a child in his cradle before he feeds desires that you do not plan to execute.
104. The same law for the lion and for the ox means oppression.
105-"I have no name"I am only two days old. "How should I call him?"I am happy. "Joy is my name": Sweet joy will come upon you!
And because of being happy and singing and dancing, they think they have not hurt me.
107. Poetry chains chains to the human race. Nations are destroyed, or bloomed, in proportion to how their poetry, painting and music is destroyed or flourishes.