Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAdvice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE