George Henry Lewes Quotes

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• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Experience, Systematic

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Uprising, Independence, Originality

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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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. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.

  George Henry Lewes

  Exercise, Past, Race

  "The Principles of Success in Literature". The Fortnightly Review, Volume 1, www.gutenberg.org. 1865.

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• No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

  George Henry Lewes

  Smart, Exercise, Men

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• The only cure for grief is action.

  George Henry Lewes

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Grief

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.42, London, Knight

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• 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 introduction of fixed conclusions.

  George Henry Lewes

  Education, Philosophy, Principles

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• Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.

  George Henry Lewes

  Strength, Errors, Weakness

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, People, Dreamer

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• Science is not addressed to poets.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Poet, Accounts

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

  George Henry Lewes

  Spontaneity, Individual

  George Henry Lewes (1879). “The study of psychology; its object, scope, and method”

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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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Height, Argument, Speak

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Giving, Genius

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Good writers are of necessity rare.

  George Henry Lewes

  Good Writers

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Men, Palaces

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• Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Use, Language

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• The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Song, Intelligent

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.11

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• All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

  George Henry Lewes

  Literature, Insight, Good Literature

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• 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 vision rests on the apparent and familiar.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Vision, Facts

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• All great authors are seers.

  George Henry Lewes

  Great Author, Seers

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Beauty, Wisdom

  'A Spanish Drama' ch. 2

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Hygiene, Progress, Literature

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

  George Henry Lewes

  Feelings, Vehemence, Violence

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• Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

  George Henry Lewes

  Historical, Doctrine, Spirit

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.9, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Air, Water

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.10

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