Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

The light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

And the spring comes slowly up this way.

... from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.