We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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