Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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.
The only cure for grief is action.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
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.
Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
Science is not addressed to poets.
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.
The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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.
All great authors are seers.
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.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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.
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