Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye.
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel.
O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live:
Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war
O! the one Life within us and abroad,
Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
