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George Henry Lewes

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Science is not addressed to poets.


— George Henry Lewes


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Science is the systematic classification of experience.


— George Henry Lewes


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Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.


— George Henry Lewes


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The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.


— George Henry Lewes


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The only cure for grief is action.


— George Henry Lewes


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The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.


— George Henry Lewes


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The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.


— George Henry Lewes


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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.


— George Henry Lewes


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Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.


— George Henry Lewes


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We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.


— George Henry Lewes


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Biology would help explain mental functions such as feeling and thinking it would not help us to understand differences of mental faculty in different races and stages of human development. In 1845–46 Lewes publiGeorge Henry Lewesd The Biographical History of Philosophy an attempt to depict the life of philosophers as an ever-renewed fruitless labour to attain the unattainable. However he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot a soul-mate whose life and writings were enriched by their friendship although they were never married.

He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism positivism and religious scepticism. However he is perhaps best known today for having openly lived with George Eliot a soul-mate whose life and writings were enriched by their friendship although they were never married.

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