Humans Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law)…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge