Quotes by George Henry Lewes

George Henry Lewes

“There is one basis of science,” says Descartes, “one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true.” A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.

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A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

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Cells

Science

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A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

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

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A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

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

Hands

Literature

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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Good Literature

Insight

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All great authors are seers.

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Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature.

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Strange

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As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

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