George Henry Lewes Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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 Henry Lewes

  Life, Heart, Science

  "The Heart and the Brain". "Catholic world", Volume 1, Issue 5, August 1865.

• Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Use, Language

• The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and it is precisely in the imperceptible blending of the plain with the ornate that a great writer is distinguished. He uses the simplest phrases without triviality, and the grandest without a suggestion of grandiloquence.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Phrases, Use

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

• Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Race, Unity, Intuition

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: v.1-2 . The foundations of a creed”, p.26

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