Philosophy Quote by William Blake — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“How can the bird that is born for joy”

“The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.”

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

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”

“But to go to school in a summer morn,”

“For every thing that lives is Holy.”

“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”

“God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.”

“Love is a cowboy's hardest ride.”

“Philosophy is the highest music.”

“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”

“The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.”