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“For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.”
― William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.”
― William Blake

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

“He who laughs most, learns best”
― John Cleese

“I think that the real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have a chance of experiencing something that is divine in nature. But in order to do that, we have to slice away at our egos and try to get them down to a manageable size, and then still work some practiced light meditation. So real religion is about reducing our egos, whereas all the churches are interested in is egotistical activities, like getting as many members and raising as much money and becoming as important and high-profile and influential as possible. All of which are egotistical attitudes. So how can you have an egotistical organization trying to teach a non-egotistical ideal? It makes no sense, unless you regard religion as crowd control. What I think most organized religion—simply crowd control.”
― John Cleese

“Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.”
― John Cleese, Life and How to Survive It

“If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play”
― John Cleese

“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
― John Cleese

“This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious.”
― John Cleese