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
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
[Coleridge] selected an instance of what was called the sublime, in DARWIN, who imagined the creation of the universe to have taken… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up… — 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 Image
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 Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
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