Quote of William Blake - To see a World in a...

Biography - William Blake:

English poet, painter, and printmaker.
Born: 1757 - Died: 1827
Place of birth: United Kingdom

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Translation

(French, German)

Voir le monde dans un grain de sable
Et le paradis dans une fleur sauvage
Tenir l'infini dans le creux de sa main
Et l'éternité dans une heure.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Um eine Welt in einem Sandkorn zu sehn
Und einen Himmel in einer wilden Blume,
Halte die Unendlichkeit in deiner flachen Hand
Und die Ewigkeit in einer Stunde.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence

Quotes about heaven:

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason /

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

Look up to the sky. You'll never find rainbows if you’re looking down.

Charlie Chaplin /

heaven

They change the sky, not their soul, who run across the sea.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles /

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Gustave Flaubert /

No man has received from nature the right to command others. Liberty is a gift from heaven.

Denis Diderot - Encyclopédie /

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Quotes about eternity:

It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.

Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité /

Time is the moving image of eternity.

Plato - Timaeus /

Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.

Jean-Baptiste Rousseau /

Be humanity evermore our goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe /

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Madame de Staël /

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods /

All about eternity...

Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy /

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

We admire the world through what we love.

Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn /

All about the world...

Quotes for: flower

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Claude Monet /

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen /

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

Gérard de Nerval /

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Oscar Wilde /

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Hamatreya /

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you.

Paul Verlaine - Green /

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Quotes for: Infinity

One thought, fills immensity.

William Blake /

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Karl Popper /

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity.

Claude Debussy /

The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.

Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness /

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Alphonse de Lamartine

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One thought, fills immensity.

William Blake /

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