Quotes to inspire and reflect

Jesus is there only for others … ‘the man for others’, and therefore the crucified.

The original is unfaithful to the translation. of Henley’s translation of Beckford ’s Vathek

In me there is darkness, but with you there is light.

I shall have no right to participate in the reconstruction of Christian life in Germany after the war if I do not share the trials of this time with my people.

Never express yourself more clearly than you think.

A fool can always find a greater fool to admire him.

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it.

When the stars threw down their spears

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,

O Rose, thou art sick!

I was angry with my friend;

In the morning glad I see,

Love seeketh not itself to please,

My mother groaned! my father wept.

Ah, Sun-flower! weary of time,

Hear the voice of the Bard!

Little Lamb who made thee?

My mother bore me in the southern wild,

For Mercy has a human heart,

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

Your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep.

Piping down the valleys wild,

What is it men in women do require?

Never pain to tell thy love

The atoms of Democritus

He who binds to himself a joy

And did those feet in ancient time

Mock on, mock on Voltaire, Rousseau:

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Exuberance is beauty.

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.

Damn braces: Bless relaxes.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet, and of the Devil’s party without knowing it.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by Incapacity.

I give you the end of a golden string;

Energy is Eternal Delight.

I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.

This life’s dim windows of the soul

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.

Can wisdom be put in a silver rod?

The Vision of Christ that thou dost see

The whore and gambler, by the State

Some are born to sweet delight,