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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

George Henry Lewes

As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.

George Henry Lewes

Science is not addressed to poets.

George Henry Lewes

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

George Henry Lewes

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

George Henry Lewes

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

George Henry Lewes

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.

George Henry Lewes

The only cure for grief is action.

George Henry Lewes

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

George Henry Lewes

The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.

George Henry Lewes

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

George Henry Lewes

The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.

George Henry Lewes

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

George Henry Lewes

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

George Henry Lewes

Sincerity is moral truth.

George Henry Lewes

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

George Henry Lewes

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

George Henry Lewes

Insight is the first condition of Art.

George Henry Lewes

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

George Henry Lewes

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

George Henry Lewes

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

George Henry Lewes

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

George Henry Lewes

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

George Henry Lewes

Good writers are of necessity rare.

George Henry Lewes

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

George Henry Lewes

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

George Henry Lewes

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

George Henry Lewes

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

George Henry Lewes

All great authors are seers.

George Henry Lewes

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent.

George Henry Lewes

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

George Henry Lewes