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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We...

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We...

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...

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The...

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, 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...

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so...

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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...

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you...

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you...

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed...

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed...

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had...

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had...

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for...

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Books are the curse of the human race.

Books are the curse of the human race.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is...

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is...

We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and...

We go to a book as Narcissus went to the fountain, see ourselves therein, and...