George Henry LewesThinkers

Aristotle is utterly destitute of any sense of the Ineffable and has no abiding consciousness of the notion that the circle of the Knowable is extremely limited; and that beyond it lies a vast mystery... impenetrable.

Emergence is a process whereby the emergent is unlike its components. It's components are incommensurable, and cannot be reduced to their sum or their difference.

Emergence is a co-operation of things of unlike kinds, not an adding measurable motion to measurable motion, or things of one kind to other individuals of their kind.

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

Murder is, like talent, something that seems occasionally to run in families.

Murder is like talent in that it seems occasionally to run in families.

Plato is misled by his Method not only in science. The same confidence in deduction from unverified premisses vitiates his teaching in every other department of inquiry, moral and political.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Truth is whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived