The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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