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About the George Henry Lewes
George Henry Leweswas an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He was also an amateur physiologist. American feminist Margaret Fuller called Lewes a “witty, French, flippant sort of man”. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious skepticism. However, he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with Mary Ann Evans, who wrote under the pen name George Eliot, as soulmates whose lives and writings were enriched by their relationship, though they never married each other.
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No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.
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Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.
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As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
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Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.
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Science is not addressed to poets.
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Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
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Good writers are of necessity rare.
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Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
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Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.
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Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
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It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
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All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
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In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
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In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
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Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
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Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.
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Sincerity is moral truth.
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The only cure for grief is action.
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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
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Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
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Sincerity is not only effective and honourable, it is also much less difficult than is commonly supposed.
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
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All great authors are seers.
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The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.
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The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.
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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
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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.
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Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.
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The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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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.
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
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All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
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Insight is the first condition of Art.
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