Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

    For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:18.

    And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream,
    That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem,
    Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme ...
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)