John Stuart Blackie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Wine #Water #Tea
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Plato #Simple #Order
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Religious #Art #Men
Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Order #Law #Existence
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#God #Law
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Drama #Heaven #Earth
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Truth #Men #Use
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Eye #Glasses #Shining
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Wise #Sweet #Art
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Men #Solitude #Loner
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
-- John Stuart Blackie

#Wise #Men #Water

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