William Blake Men Quotations

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

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.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

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.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.

What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.What is it women do in men require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.

Great Men & Fools do often me InspireBut the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.

Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans

To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.

As a man is, so he sees.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

thus men forgot that all deities reside in the human breast.

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.

I care not whether a man is good or evil; all that I care / Is whether he is a wise man or a fool. Go! put off holiness, / And put on intellect.

God only acts and is, in existing beings or men.

Works of Art can only be produc'd in Perfection where the Man is either in Affluence or is Above the Care of it.

Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.

The Man who pretends to be a modest enquirer into the truth of a self-evident thing is a Knave.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed or governed their passions, but because they have cultivate their understandings.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.

I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination

Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

Man was made for joy and woe Then when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul to bind.

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

Thou art a man God is no more Thy own humanity Learn to adore

Some will say, Is not God alone the Prolific? I answer, God only Acts & Is, in existing beings or Men.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens.

The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

The Whole Business of Man is The Arts, & All Things Common.

The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away.

The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.

Nothing is real beyond imaginative patterns men make of reality.

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.