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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.”

Ifs Men World Doe Use Eye Beautiful Sun Doors This World Perception All Things Infinite Filled Paint Proportion Bags Worn Grapes Vines Misers Guinea Caverns Chinks Doors Of Perception

Author:William Blake

“Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive to happiness with the diminution of possession, and he that teaches another to long for what he never shall obtain is no less an enemy to his quiet than if he had robbed him of part of his patrimony”

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.”

Thinking Men Natural Creation Ignorance Ego Tendencies Proportion Arrogant Egotism Infancy

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.”

Men Genius Proportion Exhaustion

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton