Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Never to see or describe any interesting appearance in nature, without connecting it by dim analogies with the moral world, proves faintness of Impression. Nature has her proper interest; & he will know what it is, who believes & feels, that every Thing has a life of it's own, & that we are all one Life.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

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He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

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Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.

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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

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On the Greek stage a drama, or acted story, consisted in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy, and performed consecutively in the course of one day.

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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

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...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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