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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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