Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge A great mind must be androgynous.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge