Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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

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The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.

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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

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For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

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