6 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Thinking

Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes on thinking

116. No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

119. The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

128. Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

132. Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

169. He has no native Passion, because he is not a Thinker - & has probably weakened his Intellect by the haunting Fear of becoming extravagant.

172. It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.