George Henry Lewes Quotes

Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
George Henry Lewes

Strength, Sincerity, Weakness

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

Difficult, Less, Sincerity

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
George Henry Lewes

Sincerity, Rebellion, Antagonism

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
George Henry Lewes

Beauty, Beautiful, Moving

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

Truth, Him, Law

Insight is the first condition of Art.
George Henry Lewes

Art, Condition, Insight

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

Art, True, Succeed

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

Art, Through, After

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

Trying, Eloquent

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
George Henry Lewes

Art, Philosophy, Both

Sincerity is moral truth.
George Henry Lewes

Truth, Moral, Sincerity

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

Literature, Object, Amuse

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

May, Poet, Feeble

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

Bad, May, Literature

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
George Henry Lewes

Good, Literature, Insight

All great authors are seers.
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

Art, Different, Minds

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

Become, Books, Inspiring

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

Truth, Art, Knowledge

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

Give, Able, Genius

Good writers are of necessity rare.
George Henry Lewes

Good, Writers, Rare

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, Above

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

Men, Artists, Exclusive

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

Great, Power, Speech

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
George Henry Lewes

Thought, Complex, Signs

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 18, 1817

Died: November 28, 1878

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