Jonathan Swift

May you live every day of your life. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#life #philosophy #wisdom #inspirational

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#disappointed #expects #never #nothing #shall

When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." [Thoughts on Various Subjects] ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#genius #stupidity #christianity

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#art

Books, the children of the brain. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#brain #children

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#inspirational

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#i #men #never #often #see

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#catch #cobwebs #flies #laws #like

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#ate #bold #first #man #old man

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#deathers #logic #politics #reason #tea-party