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To his [ Plato's ] great disap...

To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him.

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Pliny... makes the statement, ...

Pliny... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.

George Lewes 142 quotes

Most expositions of Aristotle'...

Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully suppressed all, or nearly all, the absurdities, and only retained what seemed plausible and consistent. But in this procedure their historical significance disappears.

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The public can only be really ...

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

George Lewes 142 quotes

A man may be variously accompl...

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

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All bad Literature rests upon ...

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

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Books minister to our knowledg...

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

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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.

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Good writers are of necessity ...

Good writers are of necessity rare.

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Personal experience is the bas...

Personal experience is the basis of all real literature.

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.

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Speak for yourself and from yo...

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

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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.

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Literature is at once the caus...

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

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The object of Literature is to...

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

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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 real people of genius were...

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

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Ideas are forces; our acceptan...

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

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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.

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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

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