Quotes by William Blake

The Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art.

One thought fills immensity.

A truth thats told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent.

I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth Ive a wife that I love and that loves me Ive all but riches bodily.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Tools were made and born were hands Every farmer understands.

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

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

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hells despair.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

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.

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.

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.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.