Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridgewas an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases,...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 October 1772
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist
And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.
A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.
A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.
It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Conscience is the pulse of reason
To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.
I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.