George Henry Lewes Quotes

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Insight is the first condition of Art.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling hi...

Sincerity is moral truth.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

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

Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.

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