The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to actualize the former: and it is always discursive. The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.


On the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to...

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to...

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to...

The Good consists in the congruity of a thing with the laws of the reason and the nature of the will, and in its fitness to determine the latter to...