George William Russell Quotes
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
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We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.
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You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.
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Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.
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Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.
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There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.
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After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.
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Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.
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No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.