George Henry Lewes Quotes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
George Henry Lewes

Within, Literature, Tidings

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

Once, Progress, Social

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

Beauty, Spring, Genius

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
George Henry Lewes

Talent, Run, Seems

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
George Henry Lewes

Men, Live, Nothing

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
George Henry Lewes

Experience, Real, Personal

Science is not addressed to poets.
George Henry Lewes

Science, Poets, Addressed

Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes

Experience, Science, Systematic

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
George Henry Lewes

Yourself, Speak, Silent

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
George Henry Lewes

Success, May, Cannot

The only cure for grief is action.
George Henry Lewes

Sympathy, Action, Grief

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
George Henry Lewes

Public, Genuine, Moved

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
George Henry Lewes

Mind, Another, Depends

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

True, End, Philosophy

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
George Henry Lewes

Assume, Proof, Incapable

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 18, 1817

Died: November 28, 1878

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