661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.