Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Myself I must remake.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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