George Henry Lewes Quotes About Human Nature

Quotes about: Human Nature

• 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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lovely, World, Strange

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind”, p.23

• Those works alone can have enduring success which successfully appeal to what is permanent in human nature -- which, while suiting the taste of the day, contain truths and beauty deeper than the opinions and tastes of the day.

  George Henry Lewes

  Taste, Opinion, Human Nature

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

• 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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Inquiry, Analogies, Steps

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: A Chapter from the History of Science, Including Analyses of Aristotle's Scientific Writings”, p.26

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