Quotes of: Eighteenth-century Keyword

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

…Mellor’s statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them.

Wild Enlightenment: The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century the Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

George Saintsbury

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Barbra Streisand

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Ralph Adams Cram

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one generation is never entirely so to the next.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

Frank Crowninshield

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuri...

Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture

Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors

The careful observations and the acute reasonings of the Italian geologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the speculations of in the 'Protogaea' and of in his 'Théorie de la Terre;' the sober and profound reasonings of , in the latter...

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Revolution was the great nightmare of eighteenth-century British society, and when first the American Revolution of 1776, then the French Revolution of 1789 overturned the accepted order, the United Kingdom exercised all its power so that revolution ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Lytton Strachey

A modern man registers a hundred times more sensory impressions than an eighteenth-century artist

Fernand Leger

It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive matter, we should interpret the Constitution in the twenty-first century, and...

Diane Wood