Philosophy Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

16 Philosophy quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge fuses imagination with deep inquiry, and these 16 excerpts reveal his unique take on truth, beauty, and the mind. The set offers a succinct glimpse for readers who appreciate lyrical philosophy.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom…

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Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance…

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of…

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring…

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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of…

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“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from…

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I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian…

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The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light…

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then…

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“In the perusal of philosophical works I have been greatly benefited by a resolve, which, in the antithetic form and with the…

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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths…

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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…

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

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