जॉर्ज हेनरी लेविस

Quotes

• “The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced — that without intelligence we should be Brutes — but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.”
• “Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas.”
• “Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.”
• “We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.”
• “The greatest artist is he who is greatest in the highest reaches of his art, even although he may lack the qualities necessary for the adequate execution of some minor details. It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man. The strength of a beam is measured by its weakest part, of a man by his strongest..”
• “Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1817-04-18 ) 18 April 1817, London, England

Died

30 November 1878 (1878-11-30) (aged 61), London, England

Resting place

Highgate Cemetery

Occupations

Philosopher, critic

Spouse

Agnes Jervis ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1841 ; separated</span>"}]]}'>sep. 1854 ) ​

Partner

George Eliot (1854–1878)

Era

Modern philosophy 19th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy British philosophy

School

Positivism

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