“Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.” MenFactsAliveGeniusOrdinaryNervesSuperstitiousOrdinary Man Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.” KnowsGivingFactsAgeLiteratureHeavenAnimalResultsClassTroubleIntellectualEssenceAddLibraryIgnorantConclusionAcquireLinksSauceCabinetsDeductionsDiffusionDistillation Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir
“The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.” PeopleMenFactsFightingFoundImaginationExistencePaintingJudgingBattleDeedsBrilliantExplanationHeroismPortraitsDistinguishedRelishPropensity Author:Benjamin Haydon
