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

“How many loved your moments of glad grace,”

“Come away, O human child!”

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre”

“I bring you with reverent hands”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart”

“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”

“In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realization, the person ceases.”

“The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.”

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“It's a thought," I said with a grin.”