Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will...

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will...

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

And say my glory was I had such friends.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of...

We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of...

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and...

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and...

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the...

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the...

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest...

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest...

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are...

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are...

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless...

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless...

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

I drink no more than a sponge

I drink no more than a sponge

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system...

Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system...