samuel-taylor-coleridge Quotes About mind

“Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.”

Ifs Mind Humans Minutes Faults Vain Intimate Human Mind Introducing

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Major Works

“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.”

Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare

“Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.”

Mind Long Running Cutting Thousand Tough Revenge Yesterday Dull Witch Long Runs Turtles

Book:Opus Maximum

Source: Opus Maximum

“Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.”

Mind Body Party Depth Profession Substance Unfathomable

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.”

Mind Firsts Believe Self Spiritual Spirit I Believe Waiting Disease Resources Instance Offering Distress Consolation Quaker

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“But metre itself implies a passion , i.e. a state of excitement, both in the Poet's mind, & is expected in that of the Reader.”

Mind States Passion Poet Reader Expected Excitement

Book:Imagination in Coleridge

Source: Imagination in Coleridge

“Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.”

Mind Firsts Weak Defence Weak Minds

Book:Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.”

Mind Imaginative Milton

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.”

Men Mind Heart Atheism Thousand Goodness Atheist Positive Atheism Repeats One Man Strength Of Mind

Book:Opus Maximum

Source: Opus Maximum

“In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.”

Way Mind Humans Soul Evil Cases Mystery Rocks Gold Human Mind Priceless Barren Gems

Book:Aids to Reflection

Source: Aids to Reflection

“The curiosity of an honorable mind willingly rests there, where the love of truth does not urge it farther onward, and the love of its neighbor bids it stop; in other words, it willingly stops at the point where the interests of truth do not beckon it onward, and charity cries, Halt!”

Mind Doe Interest Cry Charity Curiosity Neighbor Urges Honorable Halt

Book:Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous

Source: Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous

“Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.”

Love Mind Heart Virtue Vices Thrown Accurate Accord

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.”

Mind Exciting Motive Excess Reverse Zeal

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.”

Mind Humans May Reading Pleasure Effort Novel Worst Effects Habit Mere Curiosity Excitement Human Mind Receiving Sensibility Habitual Exertion

Book:The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: The works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.”

Mind Energy Prayer Highest Capable

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.”

Mind Humans Language Reflection Human Language

Book:Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

“It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.”

Years Mind Children Opinion Influence Unfair Discretion

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.”

Men Mind Humans Energy Prayer Praying Highest Mass Capable Concentration Faculty Human Mind Incapable Worldly

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.”

Ifs Inspirational Mind Wells Littles Intelligence Impression Great Minds Little Minds

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A great mind must be androgynous.”

Mind Great Minds Androgynous

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes

“I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.”

Life Needs Mind Reason Eye Heard Blind His Eyes Manifold

Book:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.”

Life Inspirational Mind Wisdom Funny Fall Friendship Advice Humorous Deeper Snow My Friendship Snow Falling Melting Snow

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.”

Men Mind Heart Atheism Strength Thousand Goodness Atheist One Man Strength Of Mind

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.”

Needs Mind Atheism Weak Positive Atheism Reform Excess Reformation Weak Minds

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”

Mind Wells Humor Organized Sense Of Humor Retirement Good Sense Of Humor

Book:Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)

Source: Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prose and Verse: Complete in One Volume

“Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.”

Mind Long Dream Reality Turns Dark Wind Mental Health Unnoticed Vipers Dark Dreams

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.”

Mind Humans Imagination Creation Eternal Perception Infinite Agents Primaries Prime Repetition Finite

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.”

Mind Hard Saws Brother Devil Killing Lawyer Stable Cain Vipers Abel

Book:Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

Source: Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

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