Quote #99
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Not the poem which we have read, but that to which we return, with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name …
- Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
- The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the l…
- Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
- The most general definition of beauty...Multeity in Unity.
- Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.
- Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its a…
- An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.