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John Stuart Blackie Quotes

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

John Stuart Blackie
Wine, Water, Tea

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

John Stuart Blackie
Order, Law, Existence
John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

John Stuart Blackie
Plato, Simple, Order
John Stuart Blackie (1881). “Lay Sermons”

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

John Stuart Blackie
Religious, Art, Men
John Stuart Blackie (1858). “On beauty: three discourses delivered in the University of Edinburgh”, p.104

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

John Stuart Blackie
God, Law, Fairs
JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

John Stuart Blackie
Drama, Heaven, Earth
JOHN STUART BLACKIE (1876). “SONGS OF RELIGION AND LIFE”

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

John Stuart Blackie
Truth, Men, Use
John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.

John Stuart Blackie
Eye, Glasses, Shining
John Stuart Blackie (1901). “The day-book of John Stuart Blackie”

Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie
Wise, Sweet, Art

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie
Men, Solitude, Loner
John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

John Stuart Blackie
Wise, Men, Water
John Stuart Blackie (1877). “The Wise Men of Greece: In a Series of Dramatic Dialogues”

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