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 COLERIDGEMen of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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