William Blake Quotes on Man (27 Quotes)

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night restless they turn on beds of sorrow in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

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

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

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. The fool shall not enter into Heaven let him be ever so holy.

I feel that a Man may be happy in This World. And I know that This World Is a World of Imagination Vision.

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.

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

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

Little Fly, Thy summers play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am I not like thee Or art not thou A man like Me For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

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

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.

When a man has married a wife, he finds out whether Her knees and elbows are only glued together.

Take thy Bliss, O Man.

I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools they seem to me to be something else besides human life.

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.

Where man is not nature is barren.

O pitiable foolish young man!

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

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

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.

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

Man was made for joy and woe. And when this we rightly know Through the world we safely go.

What is it men in women do require?

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

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.

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.

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.