Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Read full biography of Leslie Stephen →
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection... →
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great... →
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.