History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Nature of man Copy Share Image
You do not believe, you only believe that you believe. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Belief Copy Share Image
Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Hope Copy Share Image
About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ballet Copy Share Image
When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Atheism Copy Share Image
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Copy Share Image
O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be! — 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 Being me Copy Share Image
I have found in the Bible words for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterance for my hidden griefs and pleadings… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bible Copy Share Image
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Books Copy Share Image
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Architecture Copy Share Image
What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?)… — 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
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Bard Copy Share Image
The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Attachment Copy Share Image
“I readily believe that there are more invisible than visible Natures in the universe. But who will explain for us the family… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Better world Copy Share Image
“II A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear, A stifled, drowsy, unimpassioned grief, Which finds no natural outlet, no relief,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Beauty Copy Share Image
“Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Book Copy Share Image
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Accidents Copy Share Image
“The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The Power, the Beauty, and the Majesty That had their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry Copy Share Image
How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The imagination ... that reconciling and mediatory power, which incorporating the reason in images of the sense and organizing (as it were)… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Birth Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image