Leslie Stephen
Leslie Stephen
Sir Leslie Stephen KCBwas an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, and father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth28 November 1832
genius trouble capacity
Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.
names intellectual may
Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.
angel men laughing
Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
delirium-tremens hawthorne kind
Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.
giving-up teaching youth
When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.
heart poet should
The poet should touch our heart by showing his own
eye views his-eyes
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
profound wish study
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
religion atheism division
The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.