Words matter. These are the best George Henry Lewes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
Good writers are of necessity rare.
When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.
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.
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
All great authors are seers.
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Sincerity is moral truth.
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Insight is the first condition of Art.
Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
