George Henry Lewes Quotes
"Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Talent, Murder)
"No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Being, Man, Trying)
"Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Men, Nothing, Wonder)
"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Experience, Literature)
"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Truth, Dissent, Law, Man)
"Science is not addressed to poets."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Science, Poets)
"Science is the systematic classification of experience."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Experience, Science)
"Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Sincerity)
"Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent."
- George Henry Lewes
"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Success, May, Self)
"The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Literature)
"The only cure for grief is action."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Action, Cure, Grief)
"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Public)
"The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Superiority, Mind)
"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
(Related: Beauty, Genius, Growth, Spring, Years)
"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Proof)
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Independence, Originality, Rebellion, Sincerity)
"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
(Related: End, Philosophy, Principles)
"All great authors are seers."
- George Henry Lewes
"Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Art, Imagination, Philosophy)
"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Progress, Cause, Effect, Literature)
"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Man, May)
"All good Literature rests primarily on insight."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Literature)
"As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Art, Vision)
"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Books, Inspiring)
"Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Art, Truth, Knowledge, Books, Delight, Guidance)
"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Beauty, Thought, Emotion, Expression, Style, Will)
"Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Genius)
"Good writers are of necessity rare."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Necessity, Writers)
"Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Art, Language)
"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Imagination, Men, Artists)
"In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Power, Speech)
"In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Thought)
"Insight is the first condition of Art."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Art, First)
"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Literature, World)
"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Imitation, Literature, May)
"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Strength, Error, Insincerity, Weakness)
"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
(Related: Art, Effect, Literature, Public, Succeed)
"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
(Related: Argument)