Quote

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!

William Blake

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Blake
Age: 69 †
Born: 1757
Born: November 28
Died: 1827
Died: August 12
Collector
Engraver
Graphic Artist
Illustrator
Lithographer
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Printer
Theologian
London
England
W. Blake
Uil'iam Bleik
Blake
Mathematics
Truth
Forbid
Demonstration
Confined
Statistics
Mathematical
Math

More quotes by William Blake

Image
Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
William Blake
Image
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.
William Blake
Image
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.
William Blake
Image
The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!
William Blake
Image
I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
William Blake
Image
The naked women's body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William Blake
Image
The mocker of Art is the mocker of Jesus.
William Blake
Image
England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
William Blake
Image
Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
William Blake
Image
I must create a system, or be enslav'd by another man's.
William Blake
Image
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
William Blake
Image
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.
William Blake
Image
Gratitude is heaven itself.
William Blake
Image
The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy . Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read'st black where I read white. His seventy disciples sent against religion and government .
William Blake
Image
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift of God, the Holy Ghost. To suppose that art can go beyond the finest specimens of art that are now in the world is not knowing what art is it is being blind to the gifts of the spirit.
William Blake
Image
The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.
William Blake
Image
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
William Blake
Image
Heaven is in a grain of sand.
William Blake
Image
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
William Blake
Image
Life delights in life.
William Blake