Quotes By George Henry Lewes

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

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.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Science is not addressed to poets.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.

Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

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

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.