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.
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his discipl… - John Stuart Blackie
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his discipl…
- John Stuart Blackie
Order is the law of all intelligible existence. - John Stuart Blackie
Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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 is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing. - John Stuart Blackie
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim th… - John Stuart Blackie
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim th…
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water - John Stuart Blackie
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
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
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.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. - John Stuart Blackie
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God. - John Stuart Blackie
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.
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