What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Myself I must remake.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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