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

  George Henry Lewes

  Smart, Exercise, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Running, Believe, Men

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.429

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

  George Henry Lewes

  Taste, Opinion, Human Nature

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

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• Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Book, Delight

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

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• Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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

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