Quotessence
Home / Books / Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Book by George Eliot · 7 quotes · Men, Ifs, Should

Filter quotes by topic

Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated) Quotes

“How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive.”

“Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.”