Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau

Quote byWilliam Blake · 1757–1827

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1804), Mock On, st. 1.

English (original)

Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau. Mock on, mock on — 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again.

— William Blake

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Reason, or the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more.

Art is the tree of life. SCIENCE is the Tree of DEATH ART is the Tree of LIFEGOD is JESUS

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?