George Henry Lewes (1817–78) was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen-name George Eliot, as soulmates whose life and writings were enriched by their relationship, despite never marrying.
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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 only cure for grief is action.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Grieving, Grief
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Magic
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
Vehemence without feeling is but rant.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Violence
The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Genius
No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.
—George Henry Lewes
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
—George Henry Lewes
Topics: Scientists, Science
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