Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAn intellectual hate is the worst.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Mysticism 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.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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