William Blake Quotes About Perception
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The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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Mans desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
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When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
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