More from William Blake

  1. There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
  2. Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?
  3. Nothing can be more contemptible than to suppose Public RECORDS to be True.
  4. The true method of knowledge is experiment.
  5. That the Jews assumed a right Exclusively to the benefits of God. will be a lasting witness against them. & the same will it be against Chr…
  6. Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.
  7. Degrade first the arts if you'd mankind degrade, Hire idiots to paint with cold light and hot shade.
  8. To Generalize is to be an Idiot. To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit-General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots pos…

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