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• Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Believe, Thinking

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

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• The art of writing is not, as many seem to imagine, the art of bringing fine phrases into rhythmical order, but the art of placing before the reader intelligible symbols of the thoughts and feelings in the writer's mind.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Writing, Order

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

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• No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

  George Henry Lewes

  Logic, Argument, Judgment

  "Problems of Life and Mind, First Series: The Foundations of a Creed". Book by George Henry Lewes. Volume 1, p. 7, 1874.

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Hygiene, Progress, Literature

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

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• Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

  George Henry Lewes

  Feelings, Vehemence, Violence

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• 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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Historical, Doctrine, Spirit

  George Henry Lewes (1864). “Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings”, p.9, London : Smith, Elder and Company

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• In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Air, Water

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.10

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• The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

  George Henry Lewes

  Artist, Vision, Tests

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

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Genuine, Moved

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

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• Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

  George Henry Lewes

  Inspiring, Book, Delight

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

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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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Art, Mind, Vision

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

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• 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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• 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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Beautiful, Real, Moving

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

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• 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”

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• 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.

  George Henry Lewes

  Nature, Science, Views

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

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Hands, Literature, May

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

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

  George Henry Lewes

  Acceptance, Ideas, Force

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• The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

  George Henry Lewes

  Age, Desire, Doctrine

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge”, p.2

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• The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

  George Henry Lewes

  Majority, Opinion, Rejected

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

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• Roger Bacon, a disciple of the Arabs, also insisted on the primary necessity of Mathematics, without which no other science can be known; yet by Mathematics it is clear that he meant something very different from what we mean, including under that head even dancing, singing, gesticulation, and performance on musical instruments.

  George Henry Lewes

  Mean, Dancing, Musical

  George Henry Lewes (1867). “The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte”, p.38

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• Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

  George Henry Lewes

  Lying, Data, Principles

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: The method of science and its application to metaphysics. The rules of philosophising. Psychological principles. The limitations of knowledge”, p.17

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• Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

  George Henry Lewes

  Quiet, Speak, Silent

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

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• Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

  George Henry Lewes

  Eye, Love Is, Blind

  George Henry Lewes (1847). “Ranthorpe by George Henry Lewes, the Author of Physiology of Common Life”, p.273

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• To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Popularity, Enjoy

  George Henry Lewes (1846). “The Spanish Drama. Lope de Vega and Calderon”, p.87, London, Knight

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• A cell is regarded as the true biological atom.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Cells, Atoms

  George Henry Lewes (1859). “The physiology of common life”

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