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It is unhappily true that much...

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Lewes 142 quotes

The discoverer and the poet ar...

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.

George Lewes 142 quotes

It is not enough that a man ha...

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Ideas are forces; our acceptan...

Ideas are forces; our acceptance of one determines our reception of others.

George Lewes 142 quotes

The real people of genius were...

The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Every one who has seriously in...

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.

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The object of Literature is to...

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Literature is at once the caus...

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Heart and Brain are the two lo...

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.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Speak for yourself and from yo...

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

George Lewes 142 quotes

The delusions of self-love can...

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Personal experience is the bas...

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Good writers are of necessity ...

Good writers are of necessity rare.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Endeavour to be faithful, and ...

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Roger Bacon expressed a feelin...

Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.

George Lewes 142 quotes

He who is ignorant of Motion, ...

He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.

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The separation of Science from...

The separation of Science from Knowledge was effected step by step as the Subjective Method was replaced by the Objective Method: i.e., when in each inquiry the phenomena of external nature ceased to be interpreted on premisses suggested by the analogies of human nature.

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Science as we now understand t...

Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period when Observation, Induction, and Deduction were first employed, its birth must be referred to that comparatively recent period when the mind, rejecting the primitive tendency to seek in supernatural agencies for an explanation of all external phenomena, endeavoured, by a systematic investigation of the phenomena themselves to discover their invariable order and connection.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Roger Bacon, a disciple of the...

Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Whatever lies beyond the limit...

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

George Lewes 142 quotes

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