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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
More Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
-
-
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
We 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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
A great mind must be androgynous.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
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 COLERIDGE -
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE -
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE






