Great choice for Blake! I’ve loved The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ever since I heard Alan Watts quote the line: “If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise”
Tempted to add A. R. Ammons's line, "Hegel is not the winter," but that's a line from a poem, not an aphorism per se, and anyhow I regard Ammons as somewhat overrated and am therefore reluctant to signal boost. (I like my Biblical American outback served much rarer--that is, to say, much more McCarthyan!)
Great choice for Blake! I’ve loved The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ever since I heard Alan Watts quote the line: “If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise”
Surely we need one more aphorism, this time from Yeats, to cap this off:
"You can refute Hegel but not the Saint or the Song of Sixpence."
Thank you, Paul—one of my favorites!
Tempted to add A. R. Ammons's line, "Hegel is not the winter," but that's a line from a poem, not an aphorism per se, and anyhow I regard Ammons as somewhat overrated and am therefore reluctant to signal boost. (I like my Biblical American outback served much rarer--that is, to say, much more McCarthyan!)
Hegel feels like the winter to me! Re: Ammons: never went past the anthology pieces myself. I keep taking that same new walk.