Bodies in motion Quote by 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, we use…

— 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 public.

— 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. The wit…

— George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

— George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

— George Henry Lewes

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

— George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities.…

— 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

The artist is called a creator...

— George Henry Lewes

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

— George Henry Lewes

The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of…

— George Henry Lewes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

— George Henry Lewes