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George Henry Lewes was a British philosopher, literary critic, and writer. Born on April 18, 1817, and died on November 28, 1878, Lewes is known for his contributions to moral philosophy, aesthetics, and literary criticism.

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Famous George Henry Lewes Quotes

“Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.”

Giving Able Science Process Genius Accounts

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”

Science Experience Systematic Classification

Book:The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind

Source: The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind

“A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.”

Science Cells Biology Atoms

Book:The physiology of common life

Source: The physiology of common life

“Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are easily confounded. The Vital Principle is an entity of this ghostly kind; and although the daylight has dissipated it, and positive Biology is no longer vexed with its visitations, it nevertheless reappears in another shape in the shadowy region of mystery which surrounds biological and all other questions.”

Source: The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes: Ancient philosophy

“Heart and Brain are the two lords of life. In the metaphors of ordinary speech and in the stricter language of science, we use these terms to indicate two central powers, from which all motives radiate, to which all influences converge.”

Life Heart Two Use Science Language Term Brain Lord Power Influence Speech Ordinary Metaphor Motive Heart And Brain

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Science is not addressed to poets.”

Science Poet Accounts

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.”

Writing Science Library Mathematician

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.”

Science Nature Imagination Answers Views Effort Novel Bears Intense Investigation

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar.”

Facts Science Vision Poet Familiar Inventor

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.”

Art Science Purpose Pleasure Emotion Intellect Appeals Instruction Paramount

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature