Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, and philosopher and one of the central figures of English Romanticism. After early association with Wordsworth in the project of the Lyrical Ballads, he spent time in Germany absorbing the philosophy of Kant, Schelling, and the early Romantics, returning to introduce their ideas into English thought. The quotes below are attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, organized by topic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on God
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will end by loving himself better than all.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Knowledge
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“The dwarf sees farther than the giant when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Love
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“What I most love in another is what I do not understand.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Mind
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.”
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“Reason is the power of universal and necessary convictions.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Truth
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Attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”