5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Human nature

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on human nature

11. Aloof with hermit-eye I scan The present works of present man - A wild and dreamlike trade of blood and guile, Too foolish for a tear, too wicked for a smile!

131. The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

141. If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!

148. Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

151. If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.