Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Character Quotes

The myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakespeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments. A proper farce is mainly distinguished from comedy by the licence allowed, and even required, in the fable, in order to produce strange and laughable situations. The story need not be probable, it is enough that it is possible.

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Can an ass be tragic?--To perish under a burden that one can neither bear nor cast off? The case of the philosopher.

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...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

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No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

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Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways.

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Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

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cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

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Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

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The object of the superior man is truth.

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They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

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Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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There is a tide in the affairs of men

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Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

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