Vision is the end of religion.

— William Blake

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

— William Blake

We live as One Man for contracting our infinite senses we behold multitude or expanding: we behold as one.

— William Blake

What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Within, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.

— William Blake

What is a wife, and what is a harlot? What is a church, and what is a theater? Are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Aren't religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

— William Blake

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

— William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.

— William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

— William Blake

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend

— William Blake

When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

— William Blake