Quotes by George William Russell

George William Russell

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

Hate

People

Towns

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called “the Kingdom of Heaven” had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, “it will all blow over now.” Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

Blow

Men

Wind

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.

Spiritual

Unconquerable Will

World

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Lying

Pain

Thinking

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.

Communication

Life

Sympathy

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Forgive Me

Forgiving

Joy

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world’s great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Childhood

Hero

Sorrow

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

Betrayed

Boyhood

Childhood

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

Leader

People

Personality

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

Country

Men

Stupid

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Blow

Boyhood

Childhood

Communication

Country

Dark

Dream

Earth

Fate

Fighting

Fire

Forgive Me

Forgiving

Found

Hate

Heart

Heaven

Hero

Human Nature

Joy

Laughter

Law

Leader

Life

Lying

Men

Morality

Mountain

Night

Pain

People

Personality

Plums

Procession

Rivals

Running

Sides

Sorrow

Spirit

Spiritual

Stupid

Sympathy

Thinking

Throat

Time

Tired

Towns

Trying

Twilight

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Quotes by George William Russell

George William Russell

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

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.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

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.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world’s great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow.

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