Samuel Taylor Coleridge Thinking Quotations

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

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.

Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

Men, I think, have to be weighed, not counted.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.