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George Henry Lewes Quotes

English - Philosopher | April 18, 1817 - November 30, 1878

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

George Henry Lewes

Progress Literature Social Cause

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

George Henry Lewes

Become Delights Books Exquisite Our

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

George Henry Lewes

Literature Object Amuse Animate

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

George Henry Lewes

Mind Over Experiences Superiority

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

George Henry Lewes

Art Imagination Philosophy Invisible

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

George Henry Lewes

Brainy Genius Own Give Processes

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

George Henry Lewes

Live Men Grow Feel Learn Wonder

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

George Henry Lewes

Never Assume Proof Must Incapable

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

George Henry Lewes

Science Experience Classification

Science is not addressed to poets.

George Henry Lewes

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

George Henry Lewes

Yourself Speak Feel You Argument

Good writers are of necessity rare.

George Henry Lewes

Good Rare Necessity Writers

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