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“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.” quote by George Henry Lewes — Download Open image

“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.”

George Henry Lewes

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

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

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I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such…

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

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

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

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

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The artist is called a creator...

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

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

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

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If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has…

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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

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It's an appeal as old as America and its presidency: This is an extraordinary country populated by hard-working, big-dreaming, freedom-loving people graced by God…

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As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce; it adapts. It does not set forth new models of conduct and sensibility; it imitates. Its rhetoric is without deep appeal; the worship it organizes is without piety. It has become less a revitalization of the…

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The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All…

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