Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about History

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Wise, Ideas, History

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1849). “Notes and Lectures Upon Shakespeare and Some of the Old Poets and Dramatists: With Other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge”, p.131

Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Country, Mean, History

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.248