George Henry Lewes

Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

— George Henry Lewes

Science is not addressed to poets.

— George Henry Lewes

A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

— George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is moral truth.

— George Henry Lewes

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

— George Henry Lewes

All great authors are seers.

— George Henry Lewes

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes

Insight is the first condition of Art.

— George Henry Lewes

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

— George Henry Lewes

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

— George Henry Lewes

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

— George Henry Lewes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

— George Henry Lewes

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

— George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

— George Henry Lewes

Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

— George Henry Lewes

To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

— George Henry Lewes

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the…

— George Henry Lewes

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will…

— George Henry Lewes

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

— George Henry Lewes

There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

— George Henry Lewes

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

— George Henry Lewes

In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives:…

— George Henry Lewes

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

— George Henry Lewes

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how…

— George Henry Lewes

Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms,…

— George Henry Lewes

The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as…

— George Henry Lewes

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that…

— George Henry Lewes

Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science,…

— George Henry Lewes

The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e.,…

— George Henry Lewes

Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled…

— George Henry Lewes

The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a…

— George Henry Lewes

Except in the rare cases of great dynamic thinkers whose thoughts are as turning-points in the history of our race, it is…

— George Henry Lewes

Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period…

— George Henry Lewes

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire…

— George Henry Lewes

I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us.…

— George Henry Lewes

Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows…

— George Henry Lewes

The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced -…

— George Henry Lewes

"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived…

— George Henry Lewes

In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon…

— George Henry Lewes

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— George Henry Lewes