To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to possessors; 2.… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All colours a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share
