Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them:… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“An eminent philosopher among my friends, who can dignify even your ugly furniture by lifting it into the serene light of science,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To judge from their writings, there are certain ladies who think that an amazing ignorance, both of science and of life, is… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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