The only cure for grief is action.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Grieving, Grief
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
—George Henry Lewes
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Violence
Character is built out of circumstances.—From exactly the same materials one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Character
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Genius
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Scientists, Science
Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world and villifying human nature.
—George Henry Lewes
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Magic
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Roger Bacon English Philosopher
- Francis Bacon English Philosopher
- William of Ockham English Philosopher, Polemicist
- Geoffrey Chaucer English Poet
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke English Politician
- John Locke English Philosopher
- John Ruskin English Art Critic
- Herbert Spencer English Polymath
- Iris Murdoch British Novelist, Philosopher
- Alfred North Whitehead English Mathematician, Philosopher
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