Best George Henry Lewes Quotes
- Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. Circulating
- Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. Cause
- The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse. Amuse
- Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out… Answer
- The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular… Apparent
- Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. Families
- No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so. Eloquent
- In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure. Appeal
- No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic Adverse
- Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength. Always Weakness
- Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. Able
- Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. Antagonism
- Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination. Art
- The only cure for grief is action. Acting
- When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his… Accepted
- Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. All
- Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols. Affect
- Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. Beauty
- All good Literature rests primarily on insight. All
- All great authors are seers. All
- As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things. All
- Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. Aim
- If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument. Argument
- In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable. Complex
- The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the… Conclusion