“There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature
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Famous George Henry Lewes Quotes
Source: The Life of Goethe
“To one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”
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“Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.”
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“Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.”
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“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”
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“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.”
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“Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.”
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“The only cure for grief is action.”
Source: The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon
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“Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.”
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“Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.”
“All good Literature rests primarily on insight.”
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“All great authors are seers.”
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“Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.”
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“In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.”
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“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
Source: The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind
“No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.”
“A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.”
Source: The physiology of common life
Source: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy
“The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.”
“A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.”
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“Good writers are of necessity rare.”
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“Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.”
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Source: Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge
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Source: On Actors and the Art of Acting
“Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.”
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“The artist is called a creator.”
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“We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.”
Source: The physiology of common life
“The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.”
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“Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.”
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“The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.”
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“Science is not addressed to poets.”
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“Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.”
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“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.”
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“The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.”
Source: The Principles of Success in Literature