Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

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An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

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To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.

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The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

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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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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

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